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THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS
PREFACE TO OAK PARK CODE
PREAMBLE
ORDINANCES PENDING REVIEW FOR CODIFICATION
ADOPTING ORDINANCE
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3 ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR DEALERS
CHAPTER 4 AMBULANCES
CHAPTER 5 ANIMALS
CHAPTER 6 AUCTIONS
CHAPTER 7 BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 8 BUSINESS LICENSING
ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 2 FEE SCHEDULE
ARTICLE 2 FEE SCHEDULE
ARTICLE 3 ADVERTISING AND BILL POSTING
ARTICLE 4A GENERAL BROKERS
ARTICLE 4B PAWNBROKERS
ARTICLE 5 CATCH BASIN CLEANERS
ARTICLE 6 COMPREHENSIVE REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS
ARTICLE 7 CONTRACTOR'S STORAGE YARD, COAL OR LUMBER YARD
ARTICLE 8 DATING SERVICES
ARTICLE 9 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS
ARTICLE 10 FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS
ARTICLE 11 FLORISTS
ARTICLE 12 PARKING GARAGES AND PARKING LOTS
ARTICLE 13 ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS
ARTICLE 14 DAY AND NIGHT CARE CENTERS AND HOMES
ARTICLE 15 JUNK DEALERS
ARTICLE 16 LAUNDRIES, LAUNDROMATS, DRY CLEANING ESTABLISHMENTS AND DRY CLEANERS
ARTICLE 17 MODEL REFERRAL SERVICE
ARTICLE 18 PUBLIC PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIOS
ARTICLE 19 RENTAL REFERRAL AGENCIES
ARTICLE 20 SERVICE STATIONS
ARTICLE 21 THEATERS
ARTICLE 22 UNDERTAKERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ARTICLE 23 AMUSEMENTS
ARTICLE 23A DANCES AND DANCE HALLS
ARTICLE 24 FOODS AND FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
ARTICLE 25 LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
ARTICLE 26 MASON CONTRACTORS, GENERAL
ARTICLE 27 PUBLIC CARRIERS
ARTICLE 28 BARBERS AND BARBERSHOPS
ARTICLE 29 GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALES
ARTICLE 30 CURRENCY EXCHANGES
ARTICLE 31 HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE RIDE
ARTICLE 32 BED AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENTS
ARTICLE 33 ACCESSORY USE TOUR HOUSES
ARTICLE 34 TOUR TROLLEYS
ARTICLE 35 VALET PARKING
ARTICLE 36 DONATION BOXES
ARTICLE 37 SECONDHAND GOODS DEALERS
ARTICLE 38 MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS AND MASSAGE SERVICES
ARTICLE 39 CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS
ARTICLE 40 SHORT-TERM RENTALS
ARTICLE 41 LAWN MAINTENANCE/LANDSCAPING
CHAPTER 9 FIRE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 10 RESERVED
CHAPTER 11 GAMBLING
CHAPTER 12 HOUSING
CHAPTER 13 HUMAN RIGHTS
CHAPTER 14 LIBRARY
CHAPTER 15 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 15A NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER STANDS
CHAPTER 16 NUISANCES
CHAPTER 17 OFFENSES
CHAPTER 18 PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
CHAPTER 19 POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 20 PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 21 SMOKE ABATEMENT AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
CHAPTER 22 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 23 SUBDIVISIONS
CHAPTER 23A TAXES
CHAPTER 24 TAXICABS
CHAPTER 25 TREES, SHRUBS AND OTHER PLANTS
CHAPTER 26 WATER
CHAPTER 27 WEAPONS
CHAPTER 28 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CHAPTER 29 ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATION
CHAPTER 30 SPECIAL EVENTS
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8-15-6: LOST OR STOLEN ARTICLES:
Every junk dealer, who shall receive or be in possession of any article which may have been lost or stolen, or alleged to have been lost or stolen, shall present the same to any member of the Police Department on demand. The officer receiving such property shall arrange for a receipt for same to be delivered to the dealer. If, after investigation by the police, it can reasonably be determined that the property so delivered is neither lost nor stolen, then it shall be returned to the dealer and the Village receipt so noted.
8-15-7: CHANGE OF LOCATION:
In case any junk dealer shall remove his store or place of business from the place designated in the license, such keeper shall immediately thereupon give notice to the Village Clerk and have the same endorsed upon such license, and the address of such place of business shall thereupon be changed on the sides of the vehicles used by such licensed dealer, and made to correspond with such change of store or place of business.
ARTICLE 16
LAUNDRIES, LAUNDROMATS, DRY CLEANING ESTABLISHMENTS AND DRY CLEANERS
SECTION:
8-16-1: Definitions
8-16-2: License Required; Application; Number Of Machines
8-16-3: Regulations
8-16-4: Equipment Requirements; Automatic Dry Cleaning Establishments
8-16-5: Equipment Installation; Automatic Dry Cleaning Establishments
8-16-6: Operation; Automatic Dry Cleaning Establishments
8-16-7: Maintenance Requirements; Automatic Dry Cleaning Establishments
8-16-1: DEFINITIONS:
The following words and phrases shall have the meanings, and are hereby defined, as follows:
AUTOMATIC DRY CLEANER: Any place, building, structure, room, establishment or portion thereof having within such premises one or more automatic dry cleaning machines for use by the general public either directly or through an attendant.
AUTOMATIC DRY CLEANING MACHINE: Any device or apparatus for the cleaning of clothes or fabrics and designed to be used or operated by the general public, or an employee of the owner thereof, which machine or device makes use of or contains a chemical solvent or substance which may cause harm to human beings by reason of inhalation or contact.
DRY CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT: Any structure, store, building or other place where the service of dry cleaning, wet cleaning as a process incidental to dry cleaning, dyeing, spotting and/or finishing any cloth fabric is rendered as a business or service.
LAUNDROMAT: Any place, building, structure, room, establishment or portion thereof having within such premises one or more self-service, coin operated washing machines which are available for use by the general public for a fee and for use upon such premises.
LAUNDRY: Any place, building, structure, room, establishment or portion thereof which is used for the purpose of washing, drying, starching or ironing shirts, dresses, collars, cuffs or other wearing apparel, table, bed or other household linens, towels, curtains, draperies, bedding or other washable fabrics for the general public.
   A.   A laundry as used in this article shall be held to include any private laundry maintained or operated in connection with any hotel, restaurant, public institution, hospital or charitable institution.
   B.   The provisions of this article shall not apply to any person engaged in doing custom laundry work at home for a regular family trade, nor to any room, or portion thereof, located in an apartment building, or other dwelling in which domestic laundry work is done by or for the occupants of such building exclusively. (1981 Code)
8-16-2: LICENSE REQUIRED; APPLICATION; NUMBER OF MACHINES:
No person shall conduct, operate, maintain or carry on the business of a laundry, laundromat, dry cleaning establishment or automatic dry cleaning establishment within the village without first obtaining a license to do so and paying the fee set forth in article 2 of this chapter.
In addition to the information required on an application described in article 1 of this chapter, an application for a license under this article shall state the number of machine devices (whether under the control of the owner or his agent, or self-service, coin operated machines) proposed to be used in said business for washing, drying, dry cleaning or other laundry or dry cleaning processes. (1981 Code)
8-16-3: REGULATIONS:
   A.   All persons owning or operating establishments licensed under this article shall comply with all the applicable provisions of the health and building codes of the village, as well as the applicable provisions regarding fire prevention contained in chapter 7, article 5 of this code.
   B.   In addition to any other fire extinguishing equipment required by law, there must be kept on the premises at all times in a conspicuous and easily accessible place one or more portable fire extinguishers adequate to extinguish any fires that might occur in connection with any machinery on the premises. Such extinguisher(s) shall be of a number and type prescribed by the Oak Park Fire Department.
   C.   No person who has tuberculosis, any acute or active venereal disease or any other communicable disease shall work in any laundry, laundromat, or dry cleaning establishment, and no owner, proprietor, manager or person in charge shall knowingly permit any such person to be employed therein.
   D.   Every laundry, laundromat or dry cleaning establishment shall be provided with separate toilet facilities for male and female employees. Every room or compartment in which any toilet is installed shall be provided with adequate ventilation and such equipment as the director of public health may deem necessary for the health and comfort of the persons employed therein, or using the facilities.
   E.   A separate room or partitioned space in a room, which is entirely separate from the room in which wearing apparel, linen or other fabrics are washed or dried, and which can be maintained in a dry and sanitary condition, shall be provided and maintained in every laundry as a cloak or locker room in which employees may keep their clothing. Should persons employed be required to wear any special or designated garment during working hours, such space or room shall be so arranged that the employees may make such changes as may be necessary.
   F.   Every machine or mechanical device in any laundry, laundromat or dry cleaning establishment that is operated by an employee or patron which emits or sends off excessive heat, shall be equipped with proper heat deflectors, hood and exhaust or other apparatus that will turn the heat from the room or place in which the same is located.
   G.   No laundry, laundromat or dry cleaning establishment situated in any building which is partially used for residence purposes shall be operated after the hour of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. or before the hour of seven o'clock (7:00) A.M.
   H.   No person owning, maintaining, conducting or operating any laundry, laundromat or dry cleaning establishment in which wearing apparel, household linens, towels, bedding or any other fabrics are received and treated through the process of washing, shall remove or cause to be removed from such premises any laundered article, until the same has been thoroughly sterilized by keeping it in the washing machine, vat or other vessel provided for that purpose and the water therein has been brought to a boiling temperature or maintained at a temperature of one hundred seventy five degrees (175°) F. for at least twenty (20) minutes; or until subjecting it to live steam under pressure; or keeping it in a drying house or drying tumbler, in which the temperature is not less than two hundred fifteen degrees (215°) F. for a period of not less than fifteen (15) minutes; or until passing it through any ironing machine where the ironing surface is at a temperature of not less than two hundred twenty five degrees (225°) F., except in the case of such fabrics which would be injured by the foregoing processes, in which event the same shall be treated with soap, bleach or other such standard disinfectant solutions as shall be approved by the Director of Public Health.
   I.   Any person establishing a new laundry shall be required to submit to the Director of Public Health for his approval, a complete set of plans and specifications of the building in which such new laundry is to be located; also a complete diagram of the floor plan of each room to be occupied by such new laundry, correctly showing the arrangement of setting of all machinery and equipment to be installed therein, together with the height of the rooms.
No new laundry, which is to be used for the purpose of washing wearing apparel, table, bed or other household linens, towels, bedding or other washable fabrics shall be established in any tenement house situated in the Village.
If any existing laundry shall be vacated, discontinued or unused for a period of more than six (6) consecutive months and shall thereafter be reopened and reestablished as a laundry, such laundry shall be considered a new laundry and be subject to all of the provisions of this Article relating to a new laundry.
   J.   It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Health, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to inspect, or cause to be inspected, from time to time, all premises wherein laundries are conducted, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of this Article and all other ordinances of the Village and laws of the State, relative to the keeping and operating of laundries, are being complied with, and it shall be his duty to cause all such ordinances, provisions of this Code and other such laws to be strictly enforced.
In any establishment in which the act of cleaning is to be performed by clients thereof, and not the proprietor or his agent, the following shall apply:
   K.   Step-by-step operating instructions shall be posted conspicuously near each coin-operated machine provided for public use.
   L.   Each machine used in this activity shall be checked daily and at all times properly maintained and kept in a safe condition for public use.
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