(A) Definition. The term PUBLIC GARAGE as used in this section means any premises used for housing or care of more than 4 motor vehicles, or where any such vehicles are equipped for operation, repaired or kept for remuneration, hire or sale, not including exhibition or show rooms for model cars.
(B) License. No person shall operate or maintain a public garage without a license therefor. The fee shall be as set forth in § 110.13 (livery and garage). Application for license shall state the location of the garage and the number of cars which can be accommodated therein.
(C) Proximity to hospitals, churches and schools.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to locate, build, construct or maintain any public garage or gasoline service station, the storage of filling tanks, pumps or devices of which are used for the purpose of storing, drawing off or discharging gasoline, oil or other volatile inflammable liquid, within 150 feet of any building used as and for a hospital, church or public or parochial school, measured from the nearest point of such tank or filling or discharging device used in connection therewith, to the nearest point of any such building.
(2) This section shall not apply to any gasoline service station existing or built or maintained on the northwest corner of First Avenue and Madison Street.
(D) Floors. The vehicle floors of all garages shall be of concrete or other fireproof material.
(E) Cleanliness; combustible materials. All garages must be kept clean. Grease, oil, paint-soaked rags, waste or other combustible materials of like character shall be kept in approved self-closing metallic receptacles having metallic legs at least 3 inches high and securely braced. One such receptacle shall be provided for each 2,500 square feet or fractional part thereof of floor area in stories where workshops are located or vehicles containing volatile inflammable liquid are housed. Such receptacles shall be safely clear of all combustible surroundings and their contents shall be safely cleared at least once each day. Oily and greasy clothing shall be cared for in noncombustible and well-vented closets, safely located.
(F) Heating apparatus. No stove or hot-air furnace shall be used or allowed in any public garage or gasoline service station. Heating shall be by means of hot water or steam. Hot water or steam boiler or boilers located in a public garage shall be enclosed in a room having no opening, except to the outside of the building. Boiler rooms shall have walls, ceilings and floors of brick or concrete; walls shall not be less than 8 inches thick. Boiler rooms located on or above the ground floor in buildings occupied as public garages or gasoline service stations prior to 1940 may have impervious walls and ceilings constructed of wire lath on metal framing, plastered on both sides with rock plaster, or 6 inch hollow tile plastered on both sides, or brick or concrete.
(G) Inspections.
(1) It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to make or cause to be made such inspections of public garages as may be necessary to insure compliance with the provisions of this section. Any police officer shall be permitted at any reasonable hour to view every car stored or kept in any public garage, and it shall be unlawful to hinder any such inspection or to conceal any car or motor vehicle from such inspection.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to make or cause to be made inspections at least every month of all public garages not equipped with sprinkler, and at least every 2 months of all public garages equipped with sprinklers within the Village, to keep careful and complete record of such inspections and all matters relating thereto and to enforce the regulations prescribed herein.
(H) Conformity to Building Code. It shall be unlawful to maintain or operate any public garage in any building which does not conform to the requirements of the Building Code.
(1997 Code, § 32.25) (Ord. —, passed 7-22-1993)