For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ATTENDANT. Any person of adult age who is either the operator of the self-service laundry or dry cleaner or an authorized employee of the operator.
OPERATORS OF SELF-SERVICE LAUNDRIES AND DRY CLEANERS. Any person who keeps or maintains a commercial establishment open to the general public, which establishment is equipped with washing machines, drying machines, and/or dry cleaning machines for the purpose of cleaning, washing, dry cleaning, and/or drying laundry and other materials, and which washing, drying, and dry cleaning machines are self-operated by the general public upon payment of a charge to an attendant or to a coin collection mechanism.
SELF-SERVICE LAUNDRIES AND DRY CLEANERS. Laundry establishments which provide self-operated washing, drying facilities and/or dry cleaning which are open and available to the general public. The term does not include any establishments wherein the laundry services or dry cleaning are performed by employees of the operator of the laundry or dry cleaning establishment, nor does this term as used herein include self-service laundry or dry cleaning facilities which are provided for or established in apartment or multiple rental units, as long as the self-service laundries or dry cleaners are not open to the general public and are restricted in their availability to the tenants or inhabitants of the apartment or multiple rental units.
(‘83 Code, § 117.01)