Chapter 8.20
ABANDONED REFRIGERATORS AND COLD STORAGE LOCKERS1
Sections:
8.20.010 Abandoned refrigerators – Safety regulations.
8.20.020 Cold storage lockers – Equipment required.
8.20.010 Abandoned refrigerators – Safety regulations.
It is unlawful for any person to place, maintain, leave or possess, or to knowingly permit to be placed, maintained, left or possessed, in any place accessible to children, any abandoned, unused or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other like container or receptacle, unless all doors thereon may be readily opened by children from the inside thereof and all locks and locking devices have been removed. Every person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [Ord. 251 § 1.12.060, 1977].
8.20.020 Cold storage lockers – Equipment required.
A. It is unlawful for any person, either as owner or operator, or as agent for the owner or operator, to maintain or operate any cold storage locker or cold storage room unless the same is equipped with the following:
1. An emergency bell clearly audible to persons on the outside of the cold storage enclosure and operable from the inside of the locker or room; the operating mechanism on the inside of the locker or room shall be clearly posted with the words “emergency bell”;
2. Two or more separate electric lights of at least 10 watts each, located on the inside of the locker or room immediately adjacent to the operating mechanism of the emergency bell required in subsection (A)(1) of this section.
B. Every person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [Ord. 251 § 1.12.070, 1977].
Editor’s Note: For statutory provisions on abandoned refrigeration equipment, see Chapter 9.03 RCW.