It shall be unlawful to operate any automobile, other vehicle or carrier within the limits of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus for the purpose of collecting or distributing laundry without first registering with the Board of Health of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus for that purpose and obtaining a permit.
It shall be unlawful to place any soiled laundry in any automobile, other vehicle or carrier containing clean laundry or laundry intended for delivery, except where such automobile, vehicle or other carrier is so constructed as to effect complete separation of and avoidance of contact between soiled and cleaned laundry and in a manner acceptable to the Board of Health.
It shall be unlawful to collect laundry from a house wherein there exists a communicable disease or from a house placarded by the Board of Health as having or having had a case of communicable disease during the period of quarantine established by such placarding.
Laundry which has accumulated during the period of communicable illness shall not be removed from such house where the same has accumulated until a permit is issued by the attending physician or health officer or inspector, certifying that such accumulated laundry has been properly sterilized and is in acceptable condition for removal and relaundering.
Every automobile, other vehicle or carrier used for the purpose of collecting or distributing laundry, or both, shall be fumigated by the person or persons, company or corporation operating the same at such times and in such manner as the Board of Health may by rules and regulations prescribe and shall at all times be kept in a sanitary condition and shall be subject at all times to inspection by the Board of Health or its duly authorized representative, and when, upon such inspection, said automobile or other vehicle shall be found properly fumigated and sanitary, a permit, in writing, for the use of such automobile or other vehicle shall be issued by the Board of Health, setting forth the date of inspection, a description of the automobile or other vehicle so inspected and authority to use the same for the collection and delivery of laundry, which permit shall remain in force until revoked by the Board of Health or its Sanitary Inspector.
Before any such permit shall be granted, an application shall be made to the Board of Health by the person, persons or corporation, shall be signed by such person or persons, company or corporation and shall state the post office address of the applicant, the name under which the business is to be conducted and the number of vehicles to be used under the same name. The permit when issued shall be for the current year for which issued unless sooner revoked. All permits shall expire at 12:00 midnight on December 31 of the year for which issued. Such permit shall be kept continuously posted in a conspicuous place in the automobile or other vehicles for which issued while the same is used in collecting or delivering laundry and shall not be transferred to or posted in any other vehicle without consent of the Board of Health.
The plant, buildings and premises wherein or whereon the work of laundering is done and wherein or whereon soiled and cleaned laundry is stored or handled shall at all times be kept in a clean, sanitary condition satisfactory to the Board of Health, and such plant, buildings and premises shall at all times be subject to examination and inspection by the Board of Health and its duly authorized representatives. Soiled laundry which is in transit to or from or within such plant, buildings and premises shall not at any time be allowed to come in contact with cleaned laundry, and means satisfactory to the Board of Health must be provided by the permittee to effectively prevent possibility of such contact. This provision shall also apply to automatic laundries and dry-cleaning establishments.