Chapter 5.46
DRY CLEANERS
Sections:
5.46.040 Building and sanitation regulations.
5.46.050 Inspection by chief of police.
5.46.060 Inspection by chief of fire department.
5.46.010 Definitions.
A. “Dry cleaning” means the process of cleaning fabrics by immersion and agitation, or by immersion only, in volatile solvents (including, but not in way of limitation, solvents of petroleum distillate type, the coal tar distillate type and the chlorinated hydrocarbon type) and processes incidental thereto (including, but without limitation, spotting, cleaning, wet cleaning and finishing).
B. “Dry-cleaning establishment” means and includes any structure, store, building or other place where the service of dry cleaning, wet cleaning as a process incidental to dry cleaning, dyeing, spotting and/or finishing any fabric is rendered for hire, or is sold, resold or offered for sale or resale.
C. “Fabric” means any article of wearing apparel, household furnishings, rugs, textiles, fur and leather.
D. “Finishing” means the process of pressing and/or reshaping any fabric which is designed to restore as nearly as possible the shape, dimensions and contour of the fabric.
E. “Spotting” means the process designed to remove spots or stains which remain in a fabric after it has been subject to the other processes of dry cleaning.
5.46.020 License required.
No person, firm or corporation shall conduct, operate or maintain any dry-cleaning establishment in the village without first securing a license therefor as is required in this chapter. Applications for such license shall be made in writing to the village clerk, and shall be referred to the fire chief. The fire chief shall investigate or cause to be investigated the premises intended to be used, and shall report the result of the investigation to the president and board of trustees of the village before the issuance of a license. No such license shall be issued to any person, firm or corporation not complying with all of the provisions of this chapter, with the provisions of the building code, and all ordinances relating to flammable liquids.
5.46.030 Fee.
The annual license fee for a dry cleaner shall be one hundred ten dollars, and an additional fee of fifty-five dollars shall be paid for each additional retail facility where customers may drop or pick up articles to be dry cleaned. (Ord. 2010-08A § 7, 2010; Ord. 2010-08 § 7, 2010; Ord. 2002-07 § 24, 2002; Ord. 89-5 § 22, 1989; Ord. 84-5 § 23, 1984)
5.46.040 Building and sanitation regulations.
No dry-cleaning establishment shall be operated in a frame building. Such establishment shall be kept free from inflammable wastes so far as possible, and it shall be unlawful to maintain or permit a stove or open flame of any kind in the premises. Smoking in such premises is prohibited, and appropriate signs to that effect shall be posted in conspicuous places in the establishment. The premises must be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and must be kept free from rats, mice and vermin. No person afflicted with a contagious or venereal disease shall be employed in any dry-cleaning establishment.
5.46.050 Inspection by chief of police.
It shall be the duty of the chief of police or other official designated by the president and board of trustees to inspect or cause to be inspected every establishment licensed under this chapter at least once every six months. Any violation of this chapter or other ordinances relating to dry cleaners, premises or flammable liquids, shall be reported to the president and board of trustees.
5.46.060 Inspection by chief of fire department.
The chief of the fire department shall have the right to enter any building or premises situated in the village and occupied by any dry-cleaning establishment in order to examine the same and to determine whether or not the building and premises, or any material, chemical or compound kept therein, or used thereon, or any article or fabric dry cleaned, dyed, spotted or finished, as received, used, kept, maintained or stored on the premises or building conforms to the fire ordinances and regulations of the village or constitutes a fire hazard within the village.