California
According to California Penal Code 653, every person who tattoos or offers to tattoo a person under the age of 18 years is guilty of a misdemeanor. The Law States: "No piercing of nipples or genitalia, branding, tattooing, or permanent cosmetics for a minor regardless of parental consent."
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“We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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From California to the New York Island.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.”
—Woody Guthrie (1912–1967)
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—Angela Carter (1940–1992)