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Business Licensing & Operations in Macon County, IL (2026)

2 rules for unincorporated Macon County, Illinois.

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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Macon County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Tattoo & Body Modification

Anyone performing tattooing, body piercing, or branding in unincorporated Macon County needs an annual body art practitioner permit from the Macon County Health Department. Code § 112.15 bars practicing without one, and the chapter also adopts the Illinois Department of Public Health Body Art Code by reference for sanitation standards.

Macon County Body Art Practitioner Permit

Significant Restrictions

Macon County Code § 112.15

No person shall practice body art procedures in the county without first obtaining a body art practitioner permit from the County Health Department. Only a person who complies with the requirements of this chapter shall be entitled to receive and retain such a permit.

Towing Companies

Towing companies that remove and store vehicles in unincorporated Macon County hold a possessory lien for their services under state chattel-lien law, but Macon County Code § 71.01 caps that lien at the state Vehicle Code rate and requires every lienholder to accept credit-card payment as well as cash.

Non-Consent Tow Lien Rules in Macon County

Some Restrictions

Macon County Code § 71.01

(D) Vehicles removed from public or private property and stored by a commercial vehicle relocator or any other towing service in compliance with the State Vehicle Code shall be subject to a possessory lien for services pursuant to “An Act concerning liens furnished for chattels”, filed July 24, 1941, as amended and the provision of § 1 of that Act relating to notice and implied consent shall ...

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