Controlling the Operation of Self-Services Laundries

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(e) No exposed wood or other flammable material shall be installed or built in within 1800 of any drying equipment unless insulated. with asbestos board or other fireproof material approved as such by the fire inspection . bureau. (f) All wall surfaces located within 1800 of any laundry unit shall be faced with a non- flammable material. (g) Installation of all gas lines shall be rigid, that is, of steel pipe rather than copper tubing. (h) All such establishments shall be clean and free from any accu- mulation of combustible materials. (i) The operator shall remove from all drying machines and from the vicinity thereof at least twice during each 24 hours that said establishment is open for business all accumulations of lint and other combustible materials. (j) There shall be installed and kept readily available to the users of laundry facilities fire extenguishers recommended and approved by the South Bend Fire Department. (k) The local Fire Department must be furnished with an identified key to all locked areas. containing fuel and electrical power inlet equipment. SECTION III. Inspection. It shall be the duty of the fire inspection bureau to inspect each and every self- service laundry at least once every three (3) months for the purpose of determining whether or not the owner or operator thereof is observing and abiding by the rules and regulations of this Article. If any operator fails to correct any violation of this ordinance, or has not taken the necessary steps to an expeditious correction of any violation, cited by the fire inspection bureau, within five days after such notice of violation, it shall then be the duty of the fire inspection bureau to take immediate action to the end of closing such estab- lishment pending the correction of such infraction. SECTION IV, . Penalties. Any violation of this. Article or failure to comply with any provision of this Article within thirty (30) days after the effective date hereof, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300. 00), or by im- prisonment not to exceed thirty (30) days, or both; and any subsequent or continuing violation shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense; and by committing any violation of this ordinance the operator shall subject his establishment to closure pending the correction of such violation; all as referred to in Section III, above. SECTION V. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council, its approval by the Mayor and.the fulfillment of all statutory requirements relating thereto. / Member of the Common Council