[Ord. No. 563 §§2,3, 12-19-1962]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the
respective meanings ascribed to them:
Any device or apparatus for the cleaning of clothes or fabrics,
and designed to be used or operated by persons other than the owner
or an employee of the owner, which machine or device makes use of
or contains perchlorethylene or any chemical solvent other than water.
Any attended or unattended place, building, structure, room,
establishment, or portion thereof, available to the general public
for the purpose of washing, drying, extracting moisture from, or dry
cleaning, wearing apparel, or table, bed or other household linens,
towels, curtains, draperies, rugs, blankets, or other materials through
the use of coin-operated machines or devices.
[Ord. No. 563 §3, 12-19-1962]
No dry cleaning establishment shall be operated or open to the
public unless there is at least one (1) attendant, who has been trained
in the operation of such devices, on duty on the premises at all times
such establishment is open for business.
[Ord. No. 563 §4, 12-19-1962]
No person shall engage in the business of operating any self-service
laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof, without
first obtaining a license to do so for each such establishment to
be conducted by such person.
[Ord. No. 563 §5, 12-19-1962]
An application for said license shall be made in conformity
with the general requirements of this Chapter relating to application
for licenses. A separate application shall be made for each establishment
where such business is to be engaged in by the applicant wherever
located within the City and such application shall describe the equipment
to be installed and specify the dry cleaning solvent, if any, which
is to be provided. Every such application shall be approved by the
City Engineer as to compliance of the premises described therein with
the building and fire regulations before a license shall be issued.
The Director of Public Health and Sanitation shall cause an investigation
to be made of the premises described in such application for the purpose
of determining whether the provisions of this Chapter regulating health,
safety, and sanitation, relating to such establishment, have been
complied with.
[Ord. No. 563 §6, 12-19-1962]
An annual license tax consistent with the merchants' license
tax in the City shall be charged for each self-service laundry or
dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof. In addition to
the merchants license fee there shall be charged an inspection fee
of six dollars ($6.00) per dry cleaning machine per year plus the
six dollars ($6.00) premises inspection per year.
[Ord. No. 563 §7, 12-19-1962]
Such license shall specify whether it is for a combination self-service
laundry and self-service dry cleaning establishment, or either, and
shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the licensed establishment,
and in addition thereto there shall be so posted the name, address
and telephone number of either the owner, operator, manager or proprietor
thereof, and of the service department or agency responsible for the
proper maintenance of the machines.
[Ord. No. 563 §32, 12-19-1962]
Any license granted pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter
shall be subject to revocation for cause, as is the case with all
other licenses, and in addition thereto, the City may suspend the
same at any time it shall appear, upon a finding of the appropriate
department, that any such self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment,
or combination thereof, is being maintained in violation of the ordinances
of the City, or is dangerous or detrimental to the health of the public
or the health of the persons patronizing said establishment.
[Ord. No. 563 §31, 12-19-1962]
It shall be the duty of the City Engineer to inspect each self-service
laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof, at
least once every three (3) months for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the provisions of this Chapter and the laws of the State relative
to keeping and operating of such self-service laundries and dry cleaning
establishments are being complied with, and it shall be its duty to
cause all such provisions of this Chapter and said laws to be strictly
enforced.
[Ord. No. 563 §30, 12-19-1962]
Each self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or
combination thereof, shall have posted in a prominent place proximate
to the dry cleaning devices situated therein, complete step-by-step
instructions for the use thereof and all prohibitions with regard
thereto, and also a statement which reads substantially as follows:
"CAUTION" — Do not overload machine. An overloaded machine may
not remove all solvent from fabric. If fabric smells of solvent do
not handle until thoroughly aired."
[Ord. No. 563 §9, 12-19-1962]
Every owner, operator, manager or proprietor of a self-service
laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof, shall
cause an appropriate refuse receptacle to be situated upon its premises
in a location easily accessible to the patrons.
[Ord. No. 563 §10, 12-19-1962]
No self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination
thereof, shall be open to the general public unless the area therein
accessible to the general public is visible from the outside thereof.
[Ord. No. 563 §11, 12-19-1962]
No self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination
thereof, shall be conducted or operated unless there is provided during
its period of availability to the general public in all parts of such
store, room or place available to the general public, and not directly
obstructed by machines or other equipment, either natural light or
artificial light of at least thirty (30) foot candles, as shown by
an illuminameter test.
[Ord. No. 563 §12, 12-19-1962]
Any coin-changing devices which may be situated within the confines
of any self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination
thereof, shall be of a vault type and located in a position as conspicuous
to the exterior vantage points thereof as may be practicable.
[Ord. No. 563 §13, 12-19-1962]
No coin-operated music device or any amusement device may be
situated upon the premises of any combination self-service laundry
or dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof.
[Ord. No. 563 §14, 12-19-1962]
No self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination
thereof, shall be conducted in any store, room or place in which the
clear height between the ceiling and the finished floor is less than
nine (9) feet, or in which the temperature and humidity are such as
might endanger the health of persons utilizing the facilities therein.
[Ord. No. 563 §15, 12-19-1962]
No electrical outlets shall be made available for use by the
general public in any self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment,
or combination thereof.
[Ord. No. 563 §16, 12-19-1962]
All facilities or mechanisms for the heating and softening of
water, for the production of heat, for the operation of venting and
cooling devices, for the operation and maintenance of dry cleaning
devices and for the storage of dry cleaning solvents shall be inaccessible
to the general public in every self-service laundry or dry cleaning
establishment, or combination thereof.
[Ord. No. 563 §17, 12-19-1962]
Every washing, extracting, drying or dry cleaning device which
shall be installed or maintained in a self-service laundry or dry
cleaning establishment, or combination thereof, shall be of a make,
type or design having principal component parts which have been tested
and approved by, and which bear the tested label of an organization
nationally recognized as an authority on safety with respect to the
type of device or part concerned.
[Ord. No. 563 §18, 12-19-1962]
No washing, drying or extracting device having a capacity rated
by its manufacturers to be in excess of twenty-five (25) pounds of
dry weight of materials, and no cleaning device so rated as having
a capacity in excess of twelve (12) pounds dry weight of materials
shall be installed or maintained in any self-service laundry or dry
cleaning establishment, or combination thereof.
[Ord. No. 563 §19, 12-19-1962]
Every dryer, extractor and dry cleaning device situated within
any self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment or combination
thereof shall be so designed that it be inoperable when the door thereof
is open, and every dry cleaning device so situated shall be so designed
that its door cannot be opened during the course of its normal operating
cycle, or upon an abnormal interruption thereof. Each dry cleaning
machine shall be equipped with a transparent door or port to allow
visual examination of the status of the cleaning cycle.
[Ord. No. 563 §20, 12-19-1962]
Every dry cleaning device situated in such a self-service laundry
or dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof, shall be accessible
to the general public from its front only.
[Ord. No. 563 §21, 12-19-1962]
Every dry cleaning device situated in a self-service laundry
establishment, or combination thereof, shall have a fully automatic
operation and be, while in operation, substantially vapor-tight with
respect to the area accessible to the public therein, and be of such
a design that its normal course of operation will be uninterrupted
and will remove all significant amounts of the solvents utilized by
it from the materials placed within it.
[Ord. No. 563 §22, 12-19-1962]
Every such device shall be equipped with a mechanical system
of ventilation connected by way of vapor-tight conduits to the outside
atmosphere, or to an efficient vapor reclaiming device, and so designed
as to maintain automatically an air flow of at least one hundred (100)
feet per minute face velocity through its door whenever it be opened;
and be it further provided that such system shall be the sole means
by which vapors shall be allowed to escape from said dry cleaning
device.
[Ord. No. 563 §23, 12-19-1962]
The discharge stack for the machines and for the room in which
the machines are located shall extend at least two (2) feet above
the level of any window which can be opened, located within fifty
(50) feet of the outlet of the stack, and shall be at least fifty
(50) feet away from any fresh air intake leading to any premises.
[Ord. No. 563 §24, 12-19-1962]
No solvent other than water may be used or provided in any self-service
laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof, except
within a dry cleaning device, except such solvents generally used
for spotting in dry cleaning establishments, which solvents shall
be used only under the direction and control of the attendant on duty,
and no solvent shall be flammable nor of a type other than that specified
by the manufacturer thereof or have an established maximum allowable
concentration of less than one hundred (100) parts per million for
eight (8) hours of human exposure thereto.
[Ord. No. 563 §25, 12-19-1962]
All such solvents shall be circulated to and removed from such
dry cleaning devices by means of vapor-tight, corrosive-resistant
conduits and emanate from tanks or other enclosures so designed as
to prevent the escape therefrom of any significant amounts of solvent
vapor, and each unit of any such system shall be so designed that
upon leakage of liquids therefrom the products of such leakage shall
be intercepted and contained in reservoirs having a capacity greater
than the entire contents of such system.
[Ord. No. 563 §26, 12-19-1962]
All such solvents stored upon the premises of any combination
self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment or combination
thereof, shall be contained in sealed metal containers.
[Ord. No. 563 §29, 12-19-1962]
A concentration of such dry cleaning solvent in excess of forty
(40) parts per million shall not be permitted to prevail in that part
of any self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or combination
thereof, available to the public, nor shall there emanate therefrom
vapors or odors which shall constitute a nuisance to any portion of
the premises in which such establishment is located, nor to any adjoining
or nearby premises.
[Ord. No. 563 §27, 12-19-1962]
Any connection of a dry cleaning machine with the water supply
system must be equipped with an air-gap or vacuum breaker in the line
upstream from the condenser,with no control valves downstream from
such gap or breaker. Wastewater shall be discharged through an air-gap.
[Ord. No. 563 §8, 12-19-1962]
Every store, room or place used as a self-service laundry or
dry cleaning establishment, or combination thereof, shall at all times
be kept in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition
as to floors, walls, ceilings, windows, woodwork, machines, utensils
and fixtures.
[Ord. No. 563 §29, 12-19-1962]
The operator of every self-service laundry or dry cleaning establishment,
or combination thereof, shall cause the dry cleaning devices and related
component facilities situated therein to be inspected at least once
during each aggregate period of twenty-four (24) hours that said establishment
be open to the public, and shall cause said mechanisms to be maintained
in good working order.
[Ord. No. 563 §28, 12-19-1962]
All equipment for the maintenance and operation of such dry
cleaning devices shall be enclosed by partitions and be mechanically
ventilated to the outside atmosphere by devices capable of evacuating
against static pressure of twenty-five hundredths (.25) water inch
from such partitioned area air-drawn from that part of the premises
available to the public, which shall be provided with sufficient make-up
air, in the following specified quantities:
|
Number of Machines Served By Equipment in Partitioned
Area
|
Cubic Feet Per Minute Per Machine
| |
|---|---|---|
|
1 to 3
|
250
| |
|
4 to 8
|
200
| |
|
9 to 16
|
150
| |
|
17 or more
|
100
|
|
The operation of both this system of exhaust and the independent ventilation system of each dry cleaning machine, as required under Section 630.230, shall be maintained at all times when any self-service dry cleaning establishment is open to the public and solvent is contained in the system concerned.
|
