The City of Hoboken's purpose in enacting this chapter
is to exercise its power to protect the health, safety and welfare
of its citizens from the dangers inherent in body-piercing. Body-piercing
involves the exposure of blood and bodily fluid. The medical risks
involved in body-piercing include the contraction of diseases such
as hepatitis, AIDS, cutaneous TB, and tetanus. In addition, body-piercing
can cause infections that result in illness, deformity, or scarring.
As used in this chapter:
BODY-PIERCING PARLOR
Any place, premises, building, part of building, cellar,
basement, room or establishment in which the skin, flesh, cartilage
of a human being is pierced or punctured for the purpose of inserting
jewelry or other decorative items or adornments.
Except as provided in §
185-4 of this chapter, it shall be illegal to own or operate a body-piercing parlor within the City of Hoboken.
Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the operation of an establishment in which only piercings of the lobes of the ears and/or the sides of the nose are performed, the piercings of which areas are least prone to infection and medical complications. Such establishments, however, shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter
115 of the Code of the City of Hoboken.
Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit piercings performed by
a physician licensed by the State of New Jersey.
In the event that any section, subsection, or any part of this
chapter shall be declared invalid, such decision shall not be deemed
to affect the validity of any other section, subsection, or other
part of this code.
All ordinances or parts of same inconsistent with any provisions
of this chapter are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.