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For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
"Dry cleaning" means and includes the act, art, or process of cleaning and renovating wearing apparel, clothes, textiles, feathers, furs, hats, rugs or other fabrics with volatile inflammable, volatile noninflammable or any other liquid, in a commercial establishment
"Dry dyeing" or "dyeing" means and includes the art, act, or process of dyeing wearing apparel, felts, furs, hair, feathers, leathers, rugs, and all other textile fabrics in a solution of volatile inflammable, volatile noninflammable or any other liquid, in a commercial establishment.
"Permanent cleaner," "dyer" or "presser" means and includes any person engaged in the business of dry cleaning, dyeing or pressing within the city for six months or more of any one year and who in fact carries on such business in the city for profit.
"Pressing" includes the pressing of clothes or other fabrics by whatever means used, in a commercial establishment.
"School" means and includes any establishment set up and operated for the purpose of teaching the art of dry cleaning, dyeing or pressing, as defined in this section.
"Sponging and spotting" means and includes the removal of dirt, grease or other foreign substances by local application of inflammable or noninflammable products in a commercial establishment.
"Transient cleaner, dyer or presser" means and includes any person who engages in the dry cleaning, dyeing or pressing business in the city and maintains such place of business in the city for less than six successive months in any one year.
"Volatile inflammable products" means liquids, viscous, or other compounds, powder or solid products or substance having the capacity to evaporate, generate and emit a gas or vapor propagative of flame, fire or explosion, incident to evaporation.
"Volatile noninflammable products" means liquids, viscous, or other compounds, powder or solid product or substance having the capacity to evaporate, generate and emit a gas or vapor not propagative of flame, fire or explosion incident to evaporation. (Prior code § 15-1-1)
It is unlawful for any person owning, controlling, conducting, managing or acting as the agent or solicitor of any dry cleaning, dyeing, pressing, sponging or spotting business to cause or permit the same to be conducted, or operated, or to so solicit or receive wearing apparel or other apparel, clothes, feathers, furs, hats, rugs, textiles or other fabrics for dry cleaning, dyeing, sponging, spotting or pressing, whether having a fixed place of business or not, without first applying for and receiving a license from the city to do so, in the manner provided in this chapter. (Prior code § 15-1-2)
Every applicant for a license required by this chapter shall file with the city manager a written application containing the name of the person making such application, and if such business is to be conducted under a fictitious name, the name of each and all persons interested in such business. Such application shall specify the location by street and number of the premises in or upon which such place of business is to be conducted or the location by street and number of the establishment to which the clothes, textiles, apparel or other fabrics are to be taken. Such application shall be made on forms furnished by the city, shall be verified and shall be accompanied by the license fee as required by this chapter. (Prior code § 15-1-3)
A. The license fee for a transient cleaner, dyer or presser, as defined in this chapter, shall be five dollars per day or fraction thereof for each person engaging in such business.
B. The annual license fee for permanent cleaners, dyers or pressers shall be twenty-five dollars.
C. Any person maintaining an establishment for the purpose of cleaning, dyeing or pressing outside of the city but soliciting such articles for such purpose within the city and taking the article outside of the city and returning the same, shall pay a license fee of one hundred dollars per annum for each solicitor.
D. Any person operating or conducting a school for the teaching of cleaning, dyeing or pressing, as defined in this chapter, within the city, shall pay a license fee of two hundred fifty dollars per annum.
E. A separate license is required for each branch establishment or separate place of business. Where there is no fixed place of business, a permit is required for each vehicle or means of transportation used. (Prior code § 15-1-6)
Every person, before being granted any of the licenses provided for in this chapter, shall deposit with the city clerk a standard form of bailees' customers' insurance policy, to be approved by the city commission, insuring all kinds of lawful goods and articles to be dry cleaned, dyed or pressed by the insured, which are the property of its customers, while in the custody of the insured, its agents or stores and while being transported in due course of transit from its establishments, agents, or stores or while in the custody of such person, against direct loss or damage. Any license issued under this chapter shall immediately be revoked and canceled in the event the holder of such license permits his policy of insurance to lapse. (Prior code § 15-1-9)
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