Chapter 5-66
LAUNDRIES
Sections:
5-66-070 Location requirements.
5-66-080 Premises—Restrictions.
5-66-100 Building requirements.
5-66-140 Complete laundering required.
5-66-010 Definitions.
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, draperies, or other wearing apparel, table, bed or other household linens, towels, curtains, diapers or other washable fabrics, such work being done for the general public, shall be deemed a laundry and subject to the provisions of this chapter.
Laundry. The word “laundry,” as used in this chapter, shall also be held to include any private laundry maintained or operated in connection with any hotel, restaurant, tourist camp or public institution, except a hospital or charitable institution where no charge is made for laundry services. (Prior code § 5-54-1)
5-66-020 Exceptions.
This chapter shall not apply to any person engaged in doing laundry work at home for a regular family trade, nor to any room, rooms, or portions thereof, located in any private dwelling or tenement house in which domestic laundry work is done by or for the occupants of such building exclusively. (Ord. 2214 (part), 1980: prior code § 5-54-2)
5-66-030 License—Required.
No person shall conduct, operate, maintain or carry on the business of any laundry as defined in this chapter without first obtaining a license so to do as hereinafter provided. (Prior code § 5-54-3)
5-66-040 License—Application.
A. The application for a license to conduct a laundry shall be made in writing and shall conform to all general provisions relating to applications for licenses and shall state the maximum number of persons to be employed therein. The planning director 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 the other requirements of this chapter are fully complied with.
B. If the proposed laundry and premises wherein the laundry is to be located are in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, upon payment of the required license fee, the clerk shall issue a license authorizing such applicant to establish, maintain and operate a laundry at the place designated in such application for and during the period of such license. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. J. (part)), 1995: prior code § 5-54-4)
5-66-050 License—Revocation.
The license so granted shall be subject to revocation for cause as in the case of all other licenses, and in addition thereto, the mayor may revoke same at any time that it shall appear to his satisfaction, from any report or recommendation from the planning director or health inspector, that the maintenance of any such laundry is dangerous or detrimental to the health of the city or the health of the persons employed therein. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. J. (part)), 1995: prior code § 5-54-5)
5-66-060 Graded license fee.
For every license issued under the provisions of this chapter for the establishment, maintenance or operation of any laundry there shall be paid to the clerk, by the applicant, a license fee based on the grade or class in which it belongs, such grades being as follows:
A. Laundries in which there are not more than three persons employed in marking, sorting, washing, drying, starching or ironing wearing apparel, household linens, towels, bedding or other fabrics, shall be required to pay an annual license fee as laid out in Chapter 3-01, Fees, Fines, Insurance and Guarantee Requirements.
B. Where there are more than three and not more than ten persons so employed, the annual license fee shall be as laid out in Chapter 3-01, Fees, Fines, Insurance and Guarantee Requirements.
C. Where there are more than ten and not more than twenty-five (25) persons so employed, the annual license fee shall be as laid out in Chapter 3-01, Fees, Fines, Insurance and Guarantee Requirements.
D. Where there are more than twenty-five (25) and not more than thirty-five (35) persons so employed, the annual license fee shall be as laid out in Chapter 3-01, Fees, Fines, Insurance and Guarantee Requirements.
E. Where there are more than thirty-five (35) persons so employed, the annual fee shall be as laid out in Chapter 3-01, Fees, Fines, Insurance and Guarantee Requirements. (Ord. 3494 § 2(B), 2024; Ord. 1921 (part), 1972; prior code § 5-54-6)
5-66-070 Location requirements.
No laundry shall be established, maintained, conducted or operated in any cellar, basement, garage, or in any other room or place in any building which is not provided with sufficient light. (Prior code § 5-54-7)
5-66-080 Premises—Restrictions.
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. (Prior code § 554-8)
5-66-090 Sanitation—Health.
A. 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 mom or place shall be kept free from rats, mice and vermin, and all matters of an infectious or contagious nature.
B. No person who has tuberculosis, 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.
C. No wall paper shall be applied upon the walls or ceilings of any room used for laundry purposes. (Prior code § 5-54-9)
5-66-100 Building requirements.
A. No laundry shall be established, maintained, conducted or operated in any room or place in which the clear height between the ceiling and the finished floor is less than ten feet or which is not ventilated by means of windows, sky-lights, airshafts, airducts, or mechanical apparatus so that a complete change of air in all parts of such room or place may be made at reasonable intervals; and in every room or place reasonable air space shall be provided for each and every person employed therein; provided, that any laundry now in existence may be maintained and operated at its present location in any room or place in which the clear height between the ceiling and the finished floor does not fall below eight feet, six inches.
B. The floor of every laundry and every room or place in connection therewith, except the room or rooms in which wearing apparel, household linens, beddings, towels or other fabrics are washed shall be constructed of hardwood with tight joints, concrete, cement, tile or stone laid in cement, or other impervious material, and shall be watertight and properly drained to the public sewer. The angles where the floor and walls join shall likewise be water tight; provided, that in laundries hereafter established, the floor of the wash room shall be of concrete, cement, tile or stone laid in cement, or other impervious material, and shall be watertight and properly drained to the public sewer. (Prior code § 5-54-10)
5-66-110 Plumbing.
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 this code at the time they are installed. Every water closet, sink or other plumbing fixture, installed therein shall be of the approved type, impermeable and thoroughly sanitary. (Prior code § 5-54-11)
5-66-120 Lavatory facilities.
Every laundry shall be provided with sufficient and suitable lavatory facilities, including approved wash bowls, wash basins or sinks, supplied with hot and cold running water, soap, clean individual towels, and such other equipment as the health inspector may deem necessary for the health and comfort of the persons employed therein. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. J. (part)), 1995: prior code § 5-54-12)
5-66-130 Handling of laundry.
A. 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.
B. No wagon, cart, or vehicle of any kind shall be used for the purpose of collecting or delivering laundry work, unless said vehicle shall carry upon two sides of the same, in plain legible letters, at least two inches high, the name of the laundry where the laundry work is actually done. (Prior code § 5-54-13)
5-66-140 Complete laundering required.
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 laundered in accordance with standard laundry practices. (Prior code § 5-5414)
5-66-150 Sprinkling.
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 ejected from the mouth, or blown out of any other device communicating or coming in contact with the mouth of such person. (Prior code § 554-15)
5-66-160 Hours of operation.
No existing laundry situated in any building or place which is partially used for residential purposes shall be operated after the hour of eight p.m. or before the hour of six a.m. (Prior code § 5-54-16)
5-66-170 Odors—Smoke.
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 said laundry is located, nor to any adjoining or nearby premises. (Prior code § 5-54-17)
5-66-180 Plans—Approval.
A. Any person establishing a new laundry shall be required to submit to the planning director for approval a complete set of plans and specifications of the building in which any such new laundry is to be located, also a complete diagram of the floor plan of each room to be occupied by such new laundry, correctly showing the arrangement or setting of all machinery and equipment to be installed therein.
B. No new laundry shall hereafter be established in any house or building used or partly used as a dwelling; this shall not pertain to stations, offices, depots or places established by laundries for the purposes of calling for or receiving fabrics to be laundered or having been laundered, for the convenience of their customers. This shall not be interpreted to prevent an owner from living above his own laundry.
C. If any existing laundry shall be vacated, discontinued or unused for a period of more than six consecutive months and shall thereafter be reopened and reestablished as a laundry, such laundry shall be considered a new laundry for the purposes of this chapter. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. J. (part)), 1995: prior code § 5-54-18)
5-66-190 Inspections.
It shall be the duty of the health inspector, and he is authorized and empowered to inspect, or cause to be inspected, from time to time, all premises wherein laundries are conducted, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this chapter and all other provisions of this code and the laws of this state relative to the keeping and operating of laundries are being complied with, and it shall be his duty to cause all such regulations and laws to be strictly enforced. (Ord. 2910 § 5 (Par. J. (part)), 1995: prior code § 5-54-19)
5-66-200 Penalty.
Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined as laid out in Chapter 3-01, Fees, Fines, Insurance and Guarantee Requirements, and each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. (Ord. 3494 § 2(B), 2024; Ord. 2214 (part), 1980)