16. Inspection
16.1 Department personnel must inspect each body art facility to ensure compliance with this Code prior to issuing a license to a body art facility, and then at intervals deemed necessary by the Department. Department personnel must be granted access to the premises of a body art facility during normal hours of operation or by appointment, including access to customer and personnel records. 1. The Department must be allowed entry at will when the facility is occupied, whether for a routine inspection or not, including the need to investigate complaints or compliance. 16.2 Body art establishment inspections must be conducted no less than once a year and as often as necessary throughout the year to ensure compliance with this Code and to ensure the health and safety of the general public. 16.3 Authorized agents of the Department must properly identify themselves upon entering a body art establishment to make an inspection. 16.4 It is a violation of this Code for the operator in a body art facility to knowingly do any of the following: 1. conceal, withhold, or falsify records or evidence; 2. interfere with the performance of the duties of the Department; 3. make a false statement, representation, certification, record, report, or otherwise falsify information required to be submitted or maintained pursuant to this Code.
16.5 A digital or written copy of the inspection report must be furnished to the license holder or operator of the body art establishment. The Department retains possession of the original.
16.6 If, after investigation, the Department should find that an operator is in violation of this Code, the Department must advise the operator in writing of its findings and instruct the operator to take specific steps to correct such violations. Violations that pose an imminent public health threat need to be corrected before operation may resume. 16.7 If at any time the Department has reasonable cause to suspect that public health might be at risk, it can place limitations on the license of a body art facility or artist. The Department must notify the establishment license holder and the body artist license holder. Limitations can include the imposition of restrictions or conditions, or both, on the operations of that body art facility. A body art facility must comply with all license limitations until the Department has conducted an inspection, has determined that the license limitations are no longer necessary, and has issued an order allowing the body art facility to resume operations without the license limitations.
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