(A) The purpose of this section is to prevent deaths due to suffocation of children locked in abandoned or discarded iceboxes, refrigerators, deep-freeze lockers, clothes washers, clothes dryers or similar airtight units, from which the doors have not been removed.
(B) It is unlawful for any person knowingly to abandon or discard or to permit to be abandoned or discarded on premises under his control any icebox, refrigerator, deep-freeze locker, clothes washer, clothes dryer, or similar airtight unit having an interior storage capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more from which the door has not been removed.
(C) The provisions of this section shall not apply to an icebox, refrigerator, deep-freeze locker, clothes washer, clothes dryer or similar airtight unit which is crated or is securely locked from the outside or is in the normal use on the premises of a home, or rental unit, or is held for sale or use in a place of business. However,
PLACE OF BUSINESS as used herein shall not be deemed to include a junkyard or other similar establishment dealing in secondhand merchandise for sale, on open unprotected premises.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any junkyard or secondhand furniture dealer with unenclosed premises used for display of secondhand iceboxes, refrigerators, deep-freeze lockers, clothes washers, clothes dryers or similar airtight units to fail to remove the doors on such secondhand units having an interior storage capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more from which the door has not been removed. This section will not apply to any dealer who has fenced and locked his premises.
('72 Code, § 21-2) (Ord. O-75-108, passed 10-15-75) Penalty, see § 133.99