462 – Application of Article.

§  462.  Application of article. 1. This article shall not apply to or
  affect a physician duly licensed under article one hundred thirty-one of
  the education law or x-ray technicians.
2. This article shall not apply to, affect, or restrict the ability of
  a city, town, village, or county to  enact  a  local  law  or  ordinance
  prohibiting  or restricting body piercing or tattooing within such city,
  town, village or county.
3. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to  limit  the
  duty or power of an officer to act with regard to an immediate threat to
  the  health  of the customers of a body piercing specialist or tattooist
  or body piercing studio or tattoo studio or the community in which it is
  located, or to alter or abridge any of the  duties  and  powers  now  or
  hereafter  existing in the commissioner, state district health officers,
  county boards of health, county commissioners of health or local  boards
  of health.