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ARTICLE 55

ARTICLE 55\

LAUNDRIES.

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

1927, ch. 510, sec. 1.

1. Any place, building, structure, room, establishment or portion
thereof 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 thereof,
located in a tenement house or other dwelling in which domestic laundry
work is done by or for the occupants of such building exclusively.

1927, ch. 510, see. 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 air 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
who has tuberculosis, any acute or active venereal disease, any communic-
able or loathsome skin disease or any other communicable disease.

¹ Prior to 1924 Code, Art. 55 related to State Librarian, but as that article was
included in Art. 41, Art. 54A relating to laundries is numbered Art. 55.