1. (1) If the client is under the age of three, the client's parent or legal guardian must be given verbal and written warning of the inherent choking hazard of the jewelry before the body piercing. This warning may be included on the consent form.
2. (2) Piercing guns may be used on the ear lobe only and shall not be used on body parts such as cartilage, nostrils, navels, eyebrows, and tongues.

3. (3) For the purposes of this chapter, body piercing does not include the following:

   1. (a) the practice of electrology as defined in 37-31-101, MCA;
   2. (b) the practice of a physician or licensed medical professional as long as the person does not hold himself or herself out as a body artist;
   3. (c) the practice of acupuncture;
   4. (d) other types of body modifications, including cutting muscle to make a permanent split such as tongue-splitting, cutting into bone, trepanation (drilling into the skull), dental modification, amputation, implants, saline injection, vacuum pumping, circumcision, castration, penectomy, and subincision or superincision of genitals.

Authorizing statute(s): 50-48-103, MCA

Implementing statute(s): 50-48-103, MCA

History: NEW, 2007 MAR p. 351, Eff. 3/23/07; AMD, 2025 MAR, 37-1072, Eff. 4/26/25.