No person owning or having the possession, charge or management
of any lavatory, washroom or washplaces in any building, hospital,
club, place of assembly, railway station, public waiting place, public
conveyance, market, playground, park or other public place shall provide
any towel for common use or permit its common use. The term "common
use" in this section shall be construed to mean use by any person
after use by any other person of any towel without the cleaning thereof
before each such use. Such cleansing shall consist of a thorough washing
and drying of such towel in such manner as to destroy pathogenic bacteria.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation
to offer for the general use any toweling other than an individual
or sanitary paper towel.