686 ARTICLE 54A.

ARTICLE 54A.

LAUNDRIES.

	1. Defined; exception. 2-3. Sanitary conditions. 4. Employees with communicable dis- ease prohibited. 5-6. Requirements as to sprinkling, sterilizing, etc.	7. Receiving laundry without authority. 8. Operation between midnight and 6 A. M. prohibited. 9. Penalty. 10. Applicable to Baltimore City and Baltimore County.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 1.

1. Any place, building, structure, room, establishment or portion there-
of which is used for the purpose of washing, drying, starching, ironing or
laundering wearing apparel of any description, table, bed or other house-
hold linens, or any other washable fabrics or materials, such work being
done for the general public, shall be deemed a laundry and subject to the
provisions of this Article.

The provisions of this Article shall not, however, apply to any private
laundry maintained or operated in connection with any hotel, restaurant
or public institution, nor to hospitals or charitable institutions where no
charge is made for such laundry services, nor shall the provisions of said
Article apply to any female engaged in doing custom laundry work at her
home for a regular family trade, nor to any room, rooms or portion there-
of, located in a tenement house or other dwelling in which domestic laun-
dry work is done by or for the occupants of such building exclusively.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 2.

2. Every laundry shall be kept in a reasonably clean and sanitary
condition as to its floors, side walls, ceilings, woodwork, fixtures, tools,
machinery and utensils. All rooms used in connection with such laundry
shall be provided with adequate ventilation by means of windows, air
shafts, air ducts or other mechanical apparatus, if needed, so as at all times
to insure a free circulation of fresh aid in such laundry and every laundry
shall be provided with adequate drainage facilities.
See sec. 10.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 3.

3. Every laundry plant shall be arranged so that no soiled linen shall
come in contact therein with clean linen.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 4.

4. No person, firm or corporation operating or conducting a laundry
shall knowingly employ or permit to work in the plant thereof any person