OKLAHOMA TATTOO EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Germicidal soap - ✔✔an agent designed for use on the skin that kills disease-
causing microorganisms.
✔✔Handwashing facility - ✔✔a sink equipped with hot and cold or tempered running
water under pressure, used for washing hands, arms or other portions of the body.
✔✔HBV - ✔✔Hepatitis B virus and is a DNA virus that attacks the liver causing serious
disease.
✔✔HCV - ✔✔Hepatitis C virus and is a RNA virus found in the blood of persons who
have the disease which attacks the liver causing serious disease.
✔✔HIV - ✔✔human immunodeficiency virus
✔✔Hot water - ✔✔water that attains and maintains a temperature as specified in OAC
158:30. Water at a temperature greater than or equal to
110°F (43°C).
✔✔Instruments used for body piercing - ✔✔disposable or reusable instruments that
may contact a client's body or body fluids during body piercing procedures.
✔✔Instruments used for tattooing - ✔✔disposable or reusable instruments that may
contact a client's body or body fluids during tattooing procedures.
✔✔Integrator strips - ✔✔strips or devices used in pouches or autoclave chambers that
prove the condition of sterilization has been met.
✔✔Jewelry - ✔✔any personal ornament inserted into a newly pierced area.
✔✔License - ✔✔written approval by the Department for an artist to perform body
piercing or tattooing or written approval by the Department to operate a body piercing or
tattoo establishment.
✔✔Playground - ✔✔a place, other than grounds at a private dwelling, that is provided
by the public or members of a community for recreation [21:842.3(C)(3)(C)].
✔✔Procedure surface - ✔✔any part of furniture or fixtures designed to contact the
client's body during a body piercing or tattooing procedure or any surface where
instruments and equipment have come into contact with the client during the procedure.
, ✔✔Release form - ✔✔a release of liability that shall be completed by the client previous
to receiving a body piercing or tattoo procedure.
✔✔School - ✔✔an establishment, other than a private dwelling, where
the usual processes of education are usually conducted [21:842.3(C)(3)(a)].
✔✔Sharps - ✔✔any object (sterile or contaminated) that may purposefully or
accidentally cut or penetrate the skin or mucosa including, but not limited to, pre-
sterilized single use piercing or tattooing needles and razor blades.
✔✔Sharps container - ✔✔a puncture-resistant, leak-proof container that is labeled or
color coded that can be closed for disposal.
✔✔Single use - ✔✔products or items that are intended for one-time, one-person use
and are disposed of after use on each client including, but not limited to, cotton swabs
or balls, tissues or paper products, paper or plastic cups, gauze and sanitary coverings,
razors, piercing and tattooing needles and protective gloves.
✔✔Skills challenge - ✔✔a testing mechanism that enables persons who have received
training in tattooing and have experience in performing tattooing procedures to
challenge the training requirements by satisfactorily completing the written examination.
✔✔Spore test - ✔✔biological monitoring process in which a third party laboratory
culturing service is engaged to monitor spore growth on media processed in an
autoclave.
✔✔Statim autoclave - ✔✔a brand of autoclave utilizing the steam flush pressure pulse
method of sterilization.
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔a process resulting in the destruction of all forms of microbial life,
including highly resistant bacterial spores.
✔✔Tattooing - ✔✔the practice of producing an indelible mark or figure on the human
body by scarring or inserting a pigment under the skin using needles, scalpels, or other
related equipment; provided that medical micropigmentation, performed pursuant to the
provisions of the Oklahoma Medical Micropigmentation Regulation Act, shall not be
construed to be tattooing [21:842.1(C)(2)].
✔✔Tattoo operator - ✔✔any person who owns, controls, operates, conducts or
manages any permanent tattooing establishment whether performing the work of
tattooing or not [21:842.1(C)(4)].
✔✔Temporary artist license - ✔✔a person that is not licensed through the State of
Oklahoma that is a body piercing artist or tattoo artist doing temporary work at a
licensed body piercing or tattoo establishment not to exceed 30 days.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Germicidal soap - ✔✔an agent designed for use on the skin that kills disease-
causing microorganisms.
✔✔Handwashing facility - ✔✔a sink equipped with hot and cold or tempered running
water under pressure, used for washing hands, arms or other portions of the body.
✔✔HBV - ✔✔Hepatitis B virus and is a DNA virus that attacks the liver causing serious
disease.
✔✔HCV - ✔✔Hepatitis C virus and is a RNA virus found in the blood of persons who
have the disease which attacks the liver causing serious disease.
✔✔HIV - ✔✔human immunodeficiency virus
✔✔Hot water - ✔✔water that attains and maintains a temperature as specified in OAC
158:30. Water at a temperature greater than or equal to
110°F (43°C).
✔✔Instruments used for body piercing - ✔✔disposable or reusable instruments that
may contact a client's body or body fluids during body piercing procedures.
✔✔Instruments used for tattooing - ✔✔disposable or reusable instruments that may
contact a client's body or body fluids during tattooing procedures.
✔✔Integrator strips - ✔✔strips or devices used in pouches or autoclave chambers that
prove the condition of sterilization has been met.
✔✔Jewelry - ✔✔any personal ornament inserted into a newly pierced area.
✔✔License - ✔✔written approval by the Department for an artist to perform body
piercing or tattooing or written approval by the Department to operate a body piercing or
tattoo establishment.
✔✔Playground - ✔✔a place, other than grounds at a private dwelling, that is provided
by the public or members of a community for recreation [21:842.3(C)(3)(C)].
✔✔Procedure surface - ✔✔any part of furniture or fixtures designed to contact the
client's body during a body piercing or tattooing procedure or any surface where
instruments and equipment have come into contact with the client during the procedure.
, ✔✔Release form - ✔✔a release of liability that shall be completed by the client previous
to receiving a body piercing or tattoo procedure.
✔✔School - ✔✔an establishment, other than a private dwelling, where
the usual processes of education are usually conducted [21:842.3(C)(3)(a)].
✔✔Sharps - ✔✔any object (sterile or contaminated) that may purposefully or
accidentally cut or penetrate the skin or mucosa including, but not limited to, pre-
sterilized single use piercing or tattooing needles and razor blades.
✔✔Sharps container - ✔✔a puncture-resistant, leak-proof container that is labeled or
color coded that can be closed for disposal.
✔✔Single use - ✔✔products or items that are intended for one-time, one-person use
and are disposed of after use on each client including, but not limited to, cotton swabs
or balls, tissues or paper products, paper or plastic cups, gauze and sanitary coverings,
razors, piercing and tattooing needles and protective gloves.
✔✔Skills challenge - ✔✔a testing mechanism that enables persons who have received
training in tattooing and have experience in performing tattooing procedures to
challenge the training requirements by satisfactorily completing the written examination.
✔✔Spore test - ✔✔biological monitoring process in which a third party laboratory
culturing service is engaged to monitor spore growth on media processed in an
autoclave.
✔✔Statim autoclave - ✔✔a brand of autoclave utilizing the steam flush pressure pulse
method of sterilization.
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔a process resulting in the destruction of all forms of microbial life,
including highly resistant bacterial spores.
✔✔Tattooing - ✔✔the practice of producing an indelible mark or figure on the human
body by scarring or inserting a pigment under the skin using needles, scalpels, or other
related equipment; provided that medical micropigmentation, performed pursuant to the
provisions of the Oklahoma Medical Micropigmentation Regulation Act, shall not be
construed to be tattooing [21:842.1(C)(2)].
✔✔Tattoo operator - ✔✔any person who owns, controls, operates, conducts or
manages any permanent tattooing establishment whether performing the work of
tattooing or not [21:842.1(C)(4)].
✔✔Temporary artist license - ✔✔a person that is not licensed through the State of
Oklahoma that is a body piercing artist or tattoo artist doing temporary work at a
licensed body piercing or tattoo establishment not to exceed 30 days.
