(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Any motorized vehicle of any kind or nature, including but not limited to automobiles, trucks or motorcycles.
MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR SHOP. Any building or other enclosed structure where the business of doing maintenance, service or repair work on or for motor vehicles, or any of the component parts thereof, the repairing of, or adding of parts thereto, or the polishing, washing, greasing, painting or refinishing of any motor vehicle is conducted.
SERVICE BAY(S). The physical areas within a motor vehicle repair shop that are used to do the maintenance, service or repair work on or for a motor vehicle, or any of the component parts thereof, the repairing of, or adding of parts thereto, or the polishing, washing, greasing, painting or refinishing of any motor vehicle.
(B) License required.
(1) Motor vehicle repair shop. In addition to any other license required by law, no person shall keep, manage, conduct or in any way operate a motor vehicle repair shop in the city without first obtaining a license as required in this code.
(2) In conjunction with automobile salesroom or garage. If a motor vehicle repair shop is managed, conducted, operated or carried on in the same building, structure, premises, enclosure or other place in which an automobile salesroom or garage is managed, conducted, operated or carried on, by the same person, the person is required to apply for only one license, and that license shall be the license which requires the payment of the highest license fee.
(C) Application. An application for a license as required in division (B) hereof shall be made in compliance with the requirements of this Business Regulation and Taxation Code. The applicant shall include in the application the number of bays in the motor vehicle repair shop.
(D) General provisions.
(1) Cleanliness; fire hazards. A motor vehicle repair shop shall be kept in a clean condition. Oil, grease, dirt, refuse and flammable material of any kind shall not be permitted to accumulate (so as to constitute a fire hazard) or be tracked from any motor vehicle repair shop onto the streets or sidewalks of the city.
(2) Location. No person shall locate, build, construct or maintain a motor vehicle repair shop within 200 feet of any building used as and for a hospital, church or school, or the grounds thereof, on any block in which two-thirds of the buildings on both sides of the street are used exclusively for residential purposes or within 100 feet of any block or as otherwise provided in the Zoning Code.
(3) Obstructions prohibited. No motorized vehicle, or part thereof, under the control of a motor vehicle repair shop, shall block, or in any way interfere with, a street, alley, parkway or sidewalk.
(4) Police Department notification. The motor vehicle repair shop shall immediately notify the Police Department upon discovery of any alteration or obliteration of any engine number on any motor vehicle.
(E) Motor vehicle register. A motor vehicle repair shop shall maintain a register, to be filled out at the time a motor vehicle is brought therein for any maintenance, servicing or repair, containing the date a motor vehicle is so delivered, the owner’s name and address, the motor vehicle’s make, type, color, engine number, serial number, state license number, and city license number (if applicable), together with other distinguishing marks as the motor vehicle repair shop may deem necessary in order to fully identify the motor vehicle. When the motor vehicle is claimed and/or removed from the motor vehicle repair shop by its owner or other authorized person, the register shall note the date when the motor vehicle was removed from the motor vehicle repair shop. The register shall, at all times, be open to inspection and investigation by all members of the Police Department of the city.
(F) Storage of motor vehicles.
(1) Except as specifically provided for herein, a motor vehicle repair shop shall store or park all motor vehicles under its control in an entirely enclosed building.
(2) A motor vehicle repair shop that maintains a storage area for motor vehicles under its control, that has an eight-foot solid fence, including solid doors and gates thereto, and entirely surrounds the perimeter of the storage area, may store or park motor vehicles under its control within the solidly fenced storage area.
(3) A motor vehicle repair shop that does not maintain a solid fence storage area as provided for in division (F)(2) hereof, may store or park a motor vehicle under its control, for not more then ten working days, on commercial property owned, operated or controlled by the motor vehicle repair shop. The number of motor vehicles a motor vehicle repair shop may store or park in this fashion at any time shall be equal to double the number of service bays within the motor vehicle repair shop.
(Ord. 99-22, passed 5-11-1999)