Utah

What the form asks in Utah

Utah’s rule names things the standard waiver form did not ask. A shop in Utah gets them by default: the questions on its form, the rest on its record in the shop app.

• An allergies question: medicines, ointments, soaps, latex, anything put on the skin“A risk notification: allergic reaction, bleeding, bruising, pain, swelling” ("Before engaging in any body art procedure, the operator shall require a client or potential client to complete a client consent and disclosure form in a printed or digital format." - Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(1))
• A bleeding-disorder question“A risk notification: allergic reaction, bleeding, bruising, pain, swelling” ("Before engaging in any body art procedure, the operator shall require a client or potential client to complete a client consent and disclosure form in a printed or digital format." - Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(1))
• A note after the procedure, written in the shop app, on the record“A risk notification: allergic reaction, bleeding, bruising, pain, swelling” ("Before engaging in any body art procedure, the operator shall require a client or potential client to complete a client consent and disclosure form in a printed or digital format." - Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(1))
• Aftercare instructions, acknowledged in the consent (on every form)“Confirmation the client got and understood written and verbal aftercare” ("Before engaging in any body art procedure, the operator shall require a client or potential client to complete a client consent and disclosure form in a printed or digital format." - Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(1))

What the record must capture

• Client full name and date of birth from a government photo ID
• The client's signature, or a parent's signature for a minor
• The client's physical address
• The client's phone number, or a parent's for a minor
• A brief description of the procedure, type and location
• The artist's name
• The date of the procedure

Name and date of birth get verified from a valid government photo ID. If a client turns out to have been a minor, your defense in the statute is having reviewed, photocopied and kept that ID, so keep the copy, not just the answer.

Digital records. Utah's rule names the format. The client consent and disclosure form may be printed or digital, and the record you keep for each procedure may be written or digital. (Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(1) and (5))

"The operator shall: (a) keep client records confidential; (b) keep client records for a minimum of three years after the date of procedure; and (c) make client records available to the local health officer upon request." - Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(7)

A license on a phone in Utah

Utah’s digital license is a real ID. It lives in GET Mobile ID app. Utah Driver License Division, Using mDL:

Utah’s mDL is certified to the ISO 18013-5 standard and can be used across the U.S. and the world. More businesses are accepting the mDL every day. As of March 2023, the mDL is accepted in Utah as an official ID at the following locations: The text

On waivers.tattoo: turn on “Choose from library” in Settings and a client whose license lives on their phone can pick a saved photo of their ID for your file. It starts off, and the signed waiver says when a photo was a saved one. The license itself is the proof of age, checked the way Utah requires.

Minors

18+. Minors only with conditions. Utah names no floor age. To tattoo anyone under 18 you need the parent or legal guardian physically present through the procedure, showing reasonable proof of identity and family relationship and signing written permission, and the artist reviews and keeps a copy of the parent's government photo ID. Doing it without that is a class B misdemeanor plus a $1,000 civil penalty on the shop. Scarification on a minor is flatly banned, consent or not.

"[A]n actor commits unlawful tattooing of a minor if the actor performs or offers to perform a tattooing: (a) upon a minor; (b) without receiving the consent of the minor's parent or legal guardian; and (c) for remuneration or in the course of a business or profession." - Utah Code § 76-9-2002(2)

On waivers.tattoo: turn on Tattooing under 18 in Settings and a client under 18 gets a parent-or-guardian section — who they are, how they are related, their own signature, and a photo of their ID. The signed waiver prints what Utah requires.

Piercing a minor

18+ to sign alone. Minors only with conditions. The parent or legal guardian has to be present through the piercing, having given reasonable proof of personal identity and familial relationship and signed written permission. The sanitation rule adds that they accompany the minor in the procedure area for the entire procedure, and that the shop reviews and keeps a copy of their government photo ID.

The criminal section excludes the whole ear; the sanitation rule excludes only the fleshy non-cartilaginous earlobe with stud-and-clasp equipment. A cartilage piercing is inside the rule and outside the crime.

Off limits for a minor even with consent: branding and scarification on a minor are barred regardless of parental consent (R392-701-4(2)(d)); scarification of a minor became its own class B misdemeanor with a mandatory $1,000 fine in 2026 (§ 76-9-2004). No piercing site is named.

Class B misdemeanor, plus a $1,000 civil penalty on the shop's owner or operator for each violation (§ 76-9-2003(3)-(4))

Utah Code § 76-9-2003(2); § 76-9-2001(2) The text

On waivers.tattoo: turn on Piercing under 18 in Settings and a client under 18 gets a parent-or-guardian section — who they are, how they are related, their own signature, and a photo of their ID. The signed waiver prints what Utah requires.

What the consent form must say

• A risk notification: allergic reaction, bleeding, bruising, pain, swelling
• That a body art procedure is an irreversible change to the body
• That the procedure raises the risk of infection
• A warning that a heart condition means calling a physician first
• The line telling clients with health concerns to consult a physician
• A client evaluation section with the rule's 11 health questions
• Client name, date of birth, address, phone, and signature
• An informed consent statement covering free will and questions answered
• Confirmation the client got and understood written and verbal aftercare

"Before engaging in any body art procedure, the operator shall require a client or potential client to complete a client consent and disclosure form in a printed or digital format." - Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(1)

Health history and aftercare

Utah is the strictest of the five on this. The consent form must carry a client evaluation section asking a fixed list of questions, age, food in the last 4 hours, drugs or alcohol, blood thinners and NSAIDs in the last 24 hours, allergies to dyes and latex, hemophilia and seizures, skin conditions, communicable disease, diabetes and heart conditions, and pregnancy in the last 3 months. Aftercare goes to every client in writing with the shop's and the local health department's name, address and phone on it.

"[A] client evaluation section that ... asks at a minimum the following questions to evaluate the client's condition for receiving body art without violating the client's medical privacy" - Utah Admin. Code R392-701-14(2)(b); aftercare at R392-701-11(14)

Texting your clients in Utah

8am to 9pm, the rule does not say whose clock. Never on Sundays or legal holidays. Utah Code Ann. § 13-25a-101 et seq. (Telephone and Facsimile Solicitation Act); time restrictions at § 13-25a-103(3); definitions at § 13-25a-102; private action at § 13-25a-107, in force since 2022-05-04. It names text messages, so a text counts.

Consent. "Prior express consent", and it is the only thing that unlocks the restricted times in § 13-25a-103(3). The chapter describes it elsewhere as "the prior express consent of the person who is called agreeing to receive a telephone solicitation from a specific solicitor" (§ 13-25a-103(2)(a)). The statute does not require it to be written.

Your own clients. Yes, but it does not lift the hours/Sunday/holiday rule. Utah's EBR (§ 13-25a-102(4)) is "based on inquiry, application, purchase, or transaction," "formed by a voluntary two-way communication," and ends on an act by either person or "the passage of 18 months since the most recent inquiry, application, purchase, transaction, or voluntary two-way communication." It removes a message from "unsolicited telephone call" (§ 13-25a-102(10)(c)), which is what the do-not-call bar in § 13-25a-108 and the autodialer ban in § 13-25a-103(1)-(2) turn on. Section 13-25a-103(3) turns on "prior express consent" alone, so an 18-month-old client relationship does not authorize a Sunday text.

It reaches your sender too. Its own words are “makes or causes to be made”, so a service that texts on your behalf is inside this rule with you. Hiring one does not move the duty off the shop.

A person may not make a telephone solicitation ... without prior express consent during any of the following times: (a) between the hours of 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. local time; (b) on a Sunday; or (c) on a legal holiday. The text

Private right of action, and ONE message is enough: § 13-25a-107(1)(b)(ii) lets a person sue after a single telephone solicitation that violates § 13-25a-103(3). Recovery is "the greater of $500 or the amount of the pecuniary loss," plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees, plus injunctive relief; treble pecuniary loss for a knowing and willful violation, and the greater of $1,000 or treble loss where the recipient is an on-call emergency provider who gave notice.

Federal law is the floor under it: 8am to 9pm, the client’s local time, prior express written consent for a marketing text, and a STOP honored within 10 business days (47 C.F.R. § 64.1200(c)(1), (e)).

What to do

• Ask separately. A yes to marketing texts belongs on its own tick, not folded into the box a client has to accept to get tattooed. Keep it with the date and what it said.
• Text between 8am to 9pm, the rule does not say whose clock, and never on Sundays or legal holidays. An area code is not where somebody lives, so when you cannot tell, use the tighter window.
• Honor a STOP that day. Federal law gives you 10 business days. Same-day is the version nobody argues with, and it is what the carriers expect.
• Keep the count low. Utah sets no cap and neither does federal law, but a shop that texts a client more than a couple of times a month is teaching them to reply STOP.

Who inspects you

There is no state permit and no state artist license. The state rule sets the minimums for every shop in Utah, and the local health department where you are issues the facility permit, reviews your plans before you build or remodel, and inspects. Counties layer their own board-of-health body art regulation and their own fees on top.

Body Art Facility Sanitation (Utah Admin. Code R392-701); permits and inspections by the local health department

• Salt Lake County Health Department, Body Art facilities · Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front core
• Utah County Health Department, Environmental Health · Utah County, Provo, Orem
• Davis County Health Department, Environmental Health Division, Body Art Permit · Davis County, Layton, Bountiful
• Weber-Morgan Health Department, Environmental Health · Weber and Morgan counties, Ogden

The local health officer can enter the shop on proper identification to inspect or investigate, and can suspend the permit or close the place on the spot if there is an imminent health hazard.

Licensing

Your shop. Yes. You need a body art facility permit from the local health department before you open, and it does not transfer, selling the shop or moving it kills the permit.

Your artists. No state artist license. Instead the shop keeps a file on every artist for the inspector: full name, job description, dates of employment, phone, email, a copy of a government photo ID, and the training certificate.

The licensing page

Using a generic waiver app in Utah

A generic waiver app is one form builder for every industry — rafting outfits, gyms, trampoline parks and tattoo shops all start from the same blank template. The tattoo part is yours: you write the questions, you keep them current when the rule changes, and you find out whether you got it right when an inspector reads your file.

In Utah that is 3 things to set up and keep in step yourself:

• An allergies question: medicines, ointments, soaps, latex, anything put on the skin
• A bleeding-disorder question
• A note after the procedure, written in the shop app, on the record

On waivers.tattoo, a shop in Utah gets all of it the day it starts. Your page opens with Utah’s questions already on the form, your client signs on their own phone, and the signed waiver prints what they answered.

Utah in our state-by-state posts

• Texting your tattoo clients: the hours, the caps, and all 51 state rules
• Can a minor get a tattoo with parental consent? State by state
• Can a minor get a piercing with parental consent? 45 states say yes, each on its own terms
• Do you have to ask health questions before a tattoo? 20 states say yes. Here are the questions.
• Do you have to give tattoo aftercare instructions in writing? 38 states say yes.
• Is a tattoo consent form signed on a phone legal? Yes, since 2000. Here is what your state adds on top.
• What has to be on a tattoo consent form? 32 states say. Here is every line they name.
• 26 states make you check ID before a tattoo. The other 25 give you a reason to.
• How long do you have to keep tattoo consent forms? Every state, one table