(a) During the month of December of each year, every operator or tattoo artist of a tattoo operation or dermagraphic art studio proposing to operate a tattoo operation during any part of the next year shall apply for a permit from the City.
(b) Any person, firm, association, corporation or partnership who, subsequent to January 1, of any year, proposes to operate a tattoo operation during any remaining part of the year, after the effective date of this section, shall apply for a permit from the City no less than ten days before the tattoo operation is to be opened for business.
(Ord. 97-8. Passed 1-21-97.)