Tex. Health & Safety Code § 146.0126 · Chapter 146. TATTOO AND CERTAIN BODY PIERCING STUDIOS
TONGUE SPLITTING PROHIBITED.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For purposes of this section, "tongue splitting" means cutting a human tongue into two or more parts.
(b) A person may not perform tongue splitting.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1226, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.146.htm
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- sha256 ff7c3a78843ff352081f88c692fce35d100be0344ad8c9a1965069ada1c8e264
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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