[Ord. 1943, § 327.01]
Any place, building, structure, room, establishment, or portion
thereof, which is used for the purpose of washing, drying, starching,
or ironing shirts, dresses, underwear, collars, cuffs, or other wearing
apparel, table, bed or other household linens, towels, curtains, draperies
or other washable fabrics, such work being done for the general public,
shall be deemed a laundry and subject to the provisions of this article.
The word "laundry," as used in this article, shall also be held
to include any private laundry maintained or operated in connection
with any hotel, restaurant or public institution, except a hospital
or charitable institution where no charge is made for laundry service.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to any female
engaged in doing custom laundry work at her home for a regular family
trade, nor to any room, rooms or portion thereof, located in a tenement
house or dwelling, in which domestic laundry Work is done by or for
the occupants of such building exclusively.
[Ord. 1943, § 327.02]
No person shall conduct, operate, maintain or carry on the business
of any laundry, as defined in this article, within the Village limits,
without first obtaining a license so to do as hereinafter provided.
[Ord. 1943, §§ 327.03,
327.03]
The application for a license to conduct a laundry shall be
made in writing and shall state, if a corporation, the corporate name
in full and its principal place of business and the names and addresses
of its officers; if an individual, the name and address of each or
the copartners, and shall further state the number of employees employed
therein. The commissioner of health shall cause an investigation to
be made of the premises named and described in such application for
the purpose of determining whether the sanitary conditions and other
requirements of this article have been complied with.
If the commissioner of health shall be satisfied that the proposed laundry on the premises wherein it is located are in conformity with the provisions of this article, he shall transmit to the President and Board of Trustees his recommendation for the issuance of a license, whereupon the President and the Board of Trustees shall issue or cause to be issued to such applicant, upon payment of a license fee provided for in Section 29-11, a license authorizing such applicant to establish, maintain, conduct or operate a laundry at the place designated in such application for and during the period of such license.
Any laundry license may be issued for the unexpired portion
of the year, upon payment in advance for such unexpired period at
the rates herein fixed, proportionate to the term for which they are
issued, upon proof furnished to the President and Board of Trustees
that the applicant in such case did not maintain a laundry without
a license prior to the date of application.
[Ord. 1943, § 327.06]
The license so granted shall be subject to the revocation for
cause and the President and Board of Trustees may revoke such license
at any time that it shall appear to their satisfaction from any report
or recommendation of the commissioner of health that the maintenance
of any such laundry is dangerous or detrimental to the health of the
Village or to the health of the employees therein.
[Code 1943, §§ 327.07, 327.08]
Every laundry vehicle shall have two compartments, one compartment
to be used solely for the collection of unlaundered goods, and the
other compartment to be used solely, for the keeping of clean laundry,
the purpose being to prevent contamination of the clean laundry by
the unlaundered goods; provided, however, that the requirement that
each vehicle shall be separated into compartments shall not be required
where any person operating two or more laundry vehicles within the
Village uses one of such motor vehicles for the collection of unlaundered
goods, and uses another vehicle for the delivering of clean and laundered
goods.
The term "laundry vehicle" as used in this article shall be
construed to mean any automobile or other vehicle used for the purpose
of collecting and delivering laundry.
[Code 1943, § 327.15]
No person shall be permitted to sleep in any laundry, nor shall
any sleeping room or living room be in direct communication with any
laundry. No laundered or unlaundered fabric belonging to the trade
of any laundry shall be stored or kept in any room which is used for
living purposes.
[Code 1943, § 327.16]
Every room or place used as a laundry, or for the storage of
unlaundered or laundered fabrics in connection therewith, shall, at
all times, be kept in good repair and maintained in a clean and sanitary
condition as to floors, walls, ceilings, windows, woodwork, machinery,
utensils and fixtures, and every such room or place shall be kept
free from rats, mice and vermin, and all matters of an infections
or contagious nature.
No person who has tuberculosis, or any acute or active venereal
disease, any communicable or loathsome skin disease, or any other
communicable disease, shall work in any laundry, and no owner, proprietor,
manager or person in charge of any laundry shall knowingly, require,
permit or suffer any such person to be employed therein.
No wallpaper shall be applied upon the walls or ceilings of
any room used for laundry purposes.
[Code 1943, § 327.17]
Every laundry shall be provided with adequate sanitary plumbing and drainage facilities, and the installation of all drains and plumbing fixtures shall be in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 37 at the time they are installed. Every water closet, sink or other plumbing fixture, installed therein shall be of an approved type, impermeable and thoroughly sanitary.
[Code 1943, § 327.18]
Every laundry shall be provided with separate water closet facilities
for male and female employees, and every room or compartment in which
any water closet is installed shall be provided with adequate natural
ventilation by means of windows or skylights opening to the external
air.
[Code 1943, § 327.19]
Every person owning, maintaining, conducting or operating any
laundry shall be required to provide proper facilities and equipment
for the separate handling of clean and soiled fabrics, and no clean
or laundered fabrics shall be allowed to come in contact with any
unlaundered or soiled fabrics of any kind at any time.
[Code 1943, § 327.20]
No person owning, maintaining, conducting, or operating any
laundry in which wearing apparel, household linens, towels, bedding
or any other fabrics are received and treated through the process
of washing shall remove, or cause to be removed, from such premises
any laundered article, until the same has been thoroughly sterilized
by keeping it in the washing machine, vat or other vessel provided
for that purpose and the water therein has been brought to a boiling
temperature or maintained at a temperature of 175° F. for at least
20 minutes; or by subjecting it to a live steam under pressure; or
by keeping it in a drying house, or drying tumbler, in which the temperature
is not less than 215° F.; except in the case of silks and woolens,
or other fabrics which would be injured by the foregoing processes
in which even the same shall be treated with soap, bleach or such
other standard disinfectant solutions as shall be approved by the
commissioner of health.
[Code 1943, § 327.21]
No owner, proprietor or manager of any laundry, or any person
employed therein, shall be permitted to sprinkle any fabric with water
or other liquid substance ejecting from the mouth, or blown out of
any other device communicating or coming in contact with the mouth
of such person.
[Code 1943, § 327.22]
No existing laundry situated in any tenement house or any building
which is partially used for residence purposes shall be operated after
the hour of 8:00 p.m. or before the hour of 6:00 p.m.
[Code 1943, § 327.22]
Vapors, smoke or odors emanating from any laundry shall not
at any time be permitted to become a nuisance to any portion of the
premises in which such laundry is located, nor to any adjoining or
nearby premises.
[Code 1943, § 327.23]
It shall be the duty of the commissioner of health and he is
hereby authorized and empowered to inspect or cause to be inspected,
from time to time, all premises where laundries are conducted, for
the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this article
and the laws of the state relative to the keeping and operating of
laundries are being complied with. It shall be his duty to cause all
such ordinances and laws to be strictly enforced.
[Code 1943, § 327.24]
Any person owning, maintaining, conducting or operating any laundry, who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this article, shall be punished as provided in Section 13-3 for each offense, and a separate offense shall be regarded as having been committed for each day during which such violation or failure to comply shall continue. After due notice shall have been given by the commissioner of health and a reasonable time allowed for making any changes necessary under the terms of this article, the failure to comply with this article shall be deemed a separate offense.
[Code 1943, § 314.01]
Every person keeping or using more than two quarts of gasoline, naphtha, benzine or other volatile flammable oils for the purposes mentioned in Section 28-18, for profit or reward, shall be held and is hereby defined to be a dry cleaner.
[Code 1943, § 314.02]
It shall be unlawful for any person, to engage in or carry on
the business of dry cleaning, in which gasoline, naphtha, benzine
or other volatile flammable oils are used to clean or renovate any
clothing or articles of wearing apparel or any fabric of any kind,
without first obtaining a license for each establishment proposed
to be conducted for such business.
[Code 1943, § 314.03]
Application for a license to conduct or carry on the business of dry cleaning shall conform to the general provisions of Chapter 29 relating to applications for licenses. A separate application shall be made for each dry cleaning establishment proposed to be carried on. Every such application shall be approved by the fire marshal as well as the President and Board of Trustees before a license shall be issued.
[Code 1943, § 314.04]
The annual license fee for engaging in or carrying on the business of a dry cleaner shall be as provided in Section 29-11.
[Code 1943, § 314.05]
Dry cleaners' licenses shall be posted in a conspicuous place
in the room where the dry cleaning is done.
[Code 1943, § 314.06]
It shall be unlawful for any person to carry on or conduct the
business of dry cleaning in any building, any portion of which is
used or intended to be used for other than dry cleaning or dyeing
purposes.
[12-6-1948, § 1]
The standards, rules and regulations recommended by the National
Board of Fire Underwriters for Safeguarding Dry Cleaning and Dry Dyeing
Plants as contained in the Pamphlet No. 32, entitled. "NEFU Pamphlet
No. 32, Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for Safeguarding
Dry Cleaning and Dry Dyeing Plants as recommended by the National
Fire Protection Association, dated February, 1944," shall be followed
in all respects, with the exception that all buildings used in the
operation of dry cleaning and dry dyeing plants shall be of brick
construction or equivalent construction, wood buildings being expressly
prohibited.
[5-3-1948, § 1]
Every person engaged in or carrying on the business of dry cleaning, which dry, cleaning is not done on the premises, but transmits garments received for dry, cleaning to another place of business or establishment for the actual dry cleaning to be done, shall pay a fee as provided in Section 29-11.
[Code 1943, § 314.07]
No person shall operate or cause to be operated on any of the
streets, alleys or other public places of the Village any automobile
or other vehicle used for the purpose of collecting and delivering
articles for dry cleaning, without first having obtained a license
as hereinafter required.
[Code 1943, § 314.08]
Any person operating or desiring to operate a vehicle for the purpose of collecting and delivering articles for dry cleaning shall make application in writing which shall conform to the general requirements of Chapter 29 relating to applications for licenses. Such application shall also state the kind and character of the vehicle, if an automobile, the make, serial number, engine number and horsepower thereof.
[Code 1943, § 314.09]
The annual license fee for each vehicle used or proposed to be used for the purpose of collecting and delivering articles for dry cleaning shall be as required in Section 29-11; provided, however, that any person operating a dry cleaning establishment licensed by the Village, who uses such vehicle in connection with such licensed dry cleaning establishment, in case the vehicle tax for the current year has been paid thereon, shall be entitled to receive a dry cleaner's vehicle license for such vehicle for the sum of $0.50.
[Code 1943, § 314.10]
Any person who shall operate or cause to be operated on any
of the streets, alleys or other public places of the Village, any
vehicle used for the purpose of collecting and delivering articles
for dry cleaning, shall obtain from the Village Clerk, at the time
the license therefor is issued, a painted metallic plate, six inches
long and four inches wide, for each vehicle so licensed. Such plate
shall have stamped thereon a number corresponding to the number of
such dry cleaner's vehicle license and the expiration date of the
license period. Every such vehicle for which such plates have been
furnished shall have the same securely fastened on the right side
thereof in such manner that the same may be easily seen. In lieu of
such plate the Village Clerk may issue a decalcomania which shall
contain such information and be attached to the vehicle in whatever
manner as may be prescribed by the Village Manager.
