People v. O'Sullivan
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
Judgment of conviction rendered June 20, 1977 (Eiber, J.) affirmed.
*53Defendant, a devotee and practitioner of the art of tattooing, was served with a summons for tattooing an unidentified female on a public street, in violation of section 181.15 of the New York City Health Code. That section prohibits all tattooing of human beings, except by licensed medical doctors for medical purposes. It was enacted after a trial period during which regulation of the practice proved ineffective as a means of coping with hepatitis, an ailment which has frequently resulted from tattooing.
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- Grossman v. BaumgartnerNew York Court of Appeals · 1966
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