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HomeMy Public PortalAboutORD03573 14628o 3573. AN ORDINANCE PFERSCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR FIRE PREVENTIOM AND PROTECTION IN CONIfECTION WITH DRY CLEANERG. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON AS FOLLOWSs Section 1. For the purpose of this ordinance aXI dry cleaning or dying business is defined to be the business of gleaning or dying cloth, clothes, feathers or any sort of fabrics or textiles by the use of carbon bisulphide, gasoline, naptha, benzine, benzole or other light petroleum or coal tar products, or infl.amable liquids or cleaning, or dying by processes known as dry cleaning and dying where inflamable volatile substahces are used. Section 2. No building used for dry cleaning, dying 6r drying purposed shall be located within ten feet of any other building unless seperated therefrom by an unpierced fire wall. All rooms or structures used or tb be used for the purpose of the business of dry cleaning or dying, as above defined, shall have masonery or concrete walls and reinforced concrete or equivalent roof, and not exceed one story in height, and shall be without basement,oellar or open apace, below the ground floor. If, due to local conditiond, it is desirable to vent possible explosions upward the roof shall be of light construction and of incombustible material. No dry cleaning building shall be used for any occupancy other than dry clea,niri'g, dying and reclaiming gasoline. All exterior openings in walls shall be provided with standard wire glass in metal frame and sash, fire doors and fire shutters. Section 3. There shall be no direct sewer connection with such dry cleaning and dying rooms or structure, and the floor of the same shall be of concrete construction, laid not lower than the surface of the earth surrounding the wall. Section 4. For venyilating in dry cleaning and dying rooms, vent openings, of at least 20 sq.in. shall be provided at the floor and roof leve. The vent at roof level shall be directly above the vent at the floor level. The vents shall be near each machine and opposite to any door or any other air inlet. Each vent shall be covered with a 12 by 12 mesh wire screens Section 5. One foam type hand chemical extinguisher, shall, be provide& for each 200 sq. feet: of floor space. Section 6. At the xlose of the days operations all liqufdo contained in washers, extractors, stills or otherwise, shall be returned to underground tanks, the location of all. tanks buried or otherwise, and their contents and hazards pt shall be plainly marked by signs as approved byl.:the chief of the Fire Deoartment. The cleaning of floors with inf lamable liquids is hereby prdhibited. Section 7. No steam boiler, furnace or steam generator, or heating device, exposed fire nor other spark emitting device shall be allowed in any washing, dying 6r distilling room, or in line with vapor travel therefrom. Section S. All artificial lighting shall be by incandescent electric lights in keyless sock eta, enclosed in vapor-proff globes with control switch outside. All electric wiring and wquipment,including motors shall be in accordance with the requirments of the "National Electriea cal Code" as approved bj; the American Standadds Association, Section 9. All machines, pipes, bearings and shafting shall be properly grounded Section loo All drying rooms, if under the same roof as the dry cleaning an4 dyeing rooms, must be seperated from such rooms by a fire-resistive wall. The entrance of such drying room or rooms shall be provided with standard self-closing doors, or have only an outside entrance. Means for the ventilation of such drying room shall conform to the conditions provided in relating to dry cleaning and dyeing rooms and the pravidions for fire extinguishment must be complied with. If the drying room be a seperate building, it must conform in all respects 68 construction and equipment to the t,.:. conditiond named relative to dry cleaning and dyeing rooms as above described. Section 11. All dpy cleaning rooms shall be provide with at least two exits remote from each other.