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AN ORDINANCE
Providing for the Licensing
of Dry Cleaning Establishments
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS: .
SECTION 1.1.
CITY OF
That there be added to Chapter
25
"Licenses and Occupation
Taxes" of the Code of the City of Evanston., Illinois, 1957,
Sections 25-17 to 25-19 incl. providing for the licensing of
dry cleaning establishments, so that said sections shall read
as follows:
Section 25-17. License required - business defined.
It shall be un"lawfui for any person',r firm or corpor-
ation, to engage in or carry on within the City of
Evanston, the business of dry cleaning in which
gasoline, naptha, benzine or other volatile inflam-
mable -fluids or carbon tetrachloride, are used to
clean or renovate any clothing or articles of wearing
apparel or any fabric of any kind, without first
obtaining a license, as hereinafter provided, for
each dry cleaning establishment, proposed to be
conducted by such person, firm or corporation.
Every person, firm or corporation;. -keeping or using
more than two quarts of gasoline, naptha, benzine,
carbon tetrachloride, or any other volatile inflam8
mable liquids or other solvents for the purpose above
mentioned, for profit or hire, shall be held.and is
hereby declared to be.a dry cleaner., for the purpose
of this ordinance.
Section 25-18 Application.
Application_ for a license to conduct a dry cleaning
business as hereinabove defined, shall be made in
writing to the City Collector and approved by the
,City Manager. The application shall contain the name
of the applicant, if an individual, the names of the
principal officers, if a corporation, the location
of the place at which it is desired or intended to
carry on such dry cleaning business, together with
a description of the place of business for which
a license is desired. A separate license shall be
required for each dry cleaning establishment carried
on or conducted by any applicant wherever located
in- the City of Evanston.
Before a license shall be issued each such application
shall be approved by the Director of Building and
the Fire Marshal. The Director of Building shall
determine that all the requirements of the Boca Basic
Building Code, the Zoning Ordinance, the Plumbing
Code, and the Electrical Code of the City of Evanston
are complied with and that the premises are safe for the
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purposes of said building. The Fire Marshal shall
determine that all fire hazard precautions have been
taken and conform to the Fire Prevention Ordinance of the
City of. Evanston. If it shall appear from the appli-
cation so filed and approved by the Director of Build-
ing and the Fire Marshal as hereinabove provided,
then upon the payment of the license authorizing said
applicant to engage in or carry on the business of dry
cleaning in the place designated in the license and
for the period herein stated.
Section 25-19 License Fee - Expiration, etc.
The license fee for engaging in or carrying on the
business of dry cleaning as defined in this ordinance
is hereby fixed at $25 per annum. Every such.license
shall expire on the 31st day of December in the year
in which it is issued, provided however, that if less
than six months of the annual license period shall
have'expired at the time when such license is issued,
"the full license fee shall be charged therefor. If
six or more months of the annual license period shall
have expired, one-half of the full license fee shall
be charged. Said license shall be posted and remain
posted in a conspicuous place in the room where the
dry cleaning is done.
SECTION 2: All ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict her with
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3i Any person, firm or corporation
whoviolates any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine in accordance
with Section 1-4 of the Code of the City of Evanston, 1957•
Each day a violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall
continue, shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 4: This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after
its passage, approval and publication., according to law.
INTRODUCED April 14, 1958
PASSED April lit, 1958
APPROVED April 14,. 1958
J. R. Kimbark
Mayor
'ATTEST:
Maurice F. Brown
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Rex A. Bullinger Published: April 24, 1958
Corporation Counsel