As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes any place or vehicle where the service of dry cleaning,
wet cleaning as a process incidental to dry cleaning, dyeing, spotting,
and finishing any fabric is rendered for hire, or is sold, resold
or offered for sale or resale.
Includes any cleaning and dyeing establishment equipped to
perform dry cleaning.
The process of cleaning fabrics by immersion and agitation,
or by immersion only, in volatile solvents (including, but not by
way of limitation, solvents of petroleum distillate type and the chlorinated
hydrocarbon type) and processes incidental thereto (including, but
without limitation, spotting, cleaning, wet cleaning, and finishing).
Any article of wearing apparel, household furnishings, rugs,
textiles, fur and leather.
The process of pressing and/or reshaping any fabric, which
is designed to restore as nearly as possible the shape, dimensions
and contour of said fabric.
Every natural person, firm or corporation, copartnership
or association.
Any person by or for whom a cleaning plant is operated.
Includes any cleaning and dyeing establishment located within
the City where dry cleaning is sold, solicited or offered for sale,
directly to the retail customer. The term "outlet" also includes any
automobile, truck or vehicle operated within the City from which dry
cleaning is sold, solicited, or offered for sale directly to retail
consumers.
Any person or member of the cleaning and dyeing trade by
or for whom a retail outlet is operated.
The process designed to remove spots or stains which remain
in a fabric after it has been subjected to the other processes of
dry cleaning.
Every building or premises used or occupied by a cleaning and
dyeing establishment, or retail outlet located within the City or
used or occupied by a cleaning plant not located in the City but which
has a retail outlet in the City shall be kept in a clean and sanitary
condition as to its floors, sidewalls, ceilings, woodwork, and fixtures
and as to the tools, machinery, equipment and storage facilities used
and kept in any such building or premises. At regular intervals and
at such other times as may be deemed necessary and as shall be specified
by the Departments of Public Health and Safety, or by any health inspector
of this City, the floors, sidewalls, ceilings, woodwork, and fixtures
of any such building and premises and the tools, machinery, equipment
and storage facilities used or kept thereon shall be washed or sprayed
with a disinfectant in solution or other liquid form or vapor approved
by the Departments of Public Health and Safety or by a health inspector
of the City.
(A)
No finished or unfinished dry cleaning sold, solicited or offered
for sale within the City shall show, upon the dry-cleaned fabric being
re-rinsed in water, white solvent (one gallon to one pound of garment
weight), sufficient dirt or soil residue or other foreign deposits
sufficient to darken dry solvent below 15 Saybolt Chromometer.
(B)
Finished dry cleaning solicited or offered for sale within the City
shall be free from solvent and chemical odors.
(C)
No chemical or other substance which is poisonous, injurious or unwholesome
to human beings and which is not essential to the service or process
of dry cleaning, dyeing, spotting or finishing shall be used in rendering
any such service or performing any such process in any cleaning plant
which is not located within the City but has a retail outlet within
the City.[1]
(D)
In case any such chemical or other substance which is poisonous,
injurious or unwholesome to human beings is used by any such cleaning
and dyeing establishment in rendering any such service or performing
any such process essential thereto, then such chemical or other substance
shall be completely removed from the fabric dry cleaned, dyed or spotted
or finished or such chemical or other substance shall be completely
and entirely neutralized and rendered harmless and innocuous to human
beings before such fabric is permitted to leave such establishment
or plant for delivery to the person entitled to the possession thereof
upon completion of the process.
The Chief of the Fire Department of the Fire District shall
have the right to enter any building or premises situated within the
City and used or occupied by any retail outlet in order to examine
same and to determine whether or not said building and premises, or
any material, chemical or compound kept therein, or used thereon,
or any article of fabric dry cleaned, dyed, spotted or finished as
received, used, kept, maintained or stored on said building or premises
conforms to the fire ordinances and regulations of the City, or Fire
District or constitutes a fire hazard within the City.
(B)
No additional fee shall be charged or paid for the inspection of or issuance of a certificate of inspection for any retail outlet situated in the same building or on the same premises as a cleaning and dyeing establishment or cleaning plant in conjunction with which it is operated. The fee for any such retail outlet operated in conjunction with such establishment or plant and not situated in the same building or on the same premises shall be based on the square-foot area as provided for in §§ 11.16 and 11.17 of this chapter.
