(A) Definition. The term MACHINE SHOP as used in this section means a workshop in which machines are made or metal parts thereof are repaired, or where parts of machines or tools, implements, gears, dies, screws or other metal articles are cut, filed, shaped, punched, stamped or repaired by means of a lathe or other machinery.
(B) License. No person shall conduct or operate a machine shop without a license therefor. The fee shall be as set forth in § 110.13.
(C) Investigation. The Building Director and the Chief of the Fire Department shall make separate investigations in order to determine whether the building or place within which such machine shop is conducted or is to be conducted complies with all the provisions of this Code relating to health, safety and sanitation, buildings and fire prevention.
(D) Night operation within Residential Districts. No machine shop shall be operated in the nighttime between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in any block in which a majority of the buildings on both sides of the street are used exclusively for residential purposes, or within 100 feet of such block, and it shall be within the power of the Building Director or Police Department after reasonable notice to treat such night operation as a public nuisance and to abate the same.
(E) Health and safety regulations. No building or structure used for or in connection with any machine shop shall be so used as to endanger the health or property of the shop’s employees or the public. The owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or manager of any such machine shop shall cause all floors and other surface around or beneath any machine or work bench to be kept in good order and repair and shall have suitable and convenient sanitary receptacles for receiving waste and cloths used in and about the machine shop for the purpose of cleaning machines or parts thereof or which are intended for any other necessary use. Such owner, lessee, tenant, occupant or manager shall not permit any steel cuttings or machine parts to accumulate on or about any machine or work bench so that the same may become detrimental to the health or safety of any person therein engaged.
(F) Inspection. It shall be the duty of the Building Director to cause an inspection to be made of the premises used for machine shop purposes and all buildings used in connection therewith as often as may be necessary to abate or cause to be removed the nuisance designated in this section.
(G) Noise. It shall be unlawful to operate, within 200 feet of any residence, a machine shop wherein pneumatic hammers or other apparatus are used which cause loud or unusual noises.
(1997 Code, § 32.18) (Am. Ord. CO-09-27, passed 10-6-2009; Am. Ord. CO-2021-21, passed 8-17-2021) Penalty, see § 111.99