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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 9 – Laundries and Dry Cleaners">
  <section prefix="§" num="9-1" heading="Prohibited hours of laundry operation.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation doing a public laundry business, or any employee thereof, between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. of any day:<para num="(1)">to operate a laundry;</para>
      <para num="(2)">to collect wearing apparel or articles of any kind whatsoever to be washed or laundered; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">to deliver the same after having been washed or laundered.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Penalties.">Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than $50 nor more than $100 for each offense.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1927, art. 32, §26</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 24, §22</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 19, §46</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 19, §53</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 25-507</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 27-960</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-2" reserved="true" />
  <section prefix="§" num="9-3" heading="Laundry identification marks.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope of section.">This section applies to all establishments engaged in the business of cleaning and finishing any wearing apparel, such as:<para num="(1)">hand and steam laundries;</para>
      <para num="(2)">retail and wholesale cleaners;</para>
      <para num="(3)">agents and agencies;</para>
      <para num="(4)">bobtailors; and</para>
      <para num="(5)">all so engaged in this type of business.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Marks to be reported to Police Department.">
      <para num="(1)">Each person, firm, or corporation conducting a laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or offering as an independent contractor the services of such an establishment, shall report to the Police Commissioner, on forms supplied by the Commissioner, the type and style of laundry or dry cleaning identification marks which are attached to or stamped or written upon garments processed by such establishment when returned to the customer.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Such report shall be accompanied by actual samples of the identification markings used.</para>
      <para num="(3)">The person, firm, or corporation shall make the report immediately on entering the business of laundry or dry cleaning.</para>
      <para num="(4)">Any change in identification marking systems, either by eliminating such marking or changing the system of identification marking used, shall be reported to the Commissioner immediately.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Records to be retained.">Each such laundry, dry cleaning establishment, or independent contractor shall retain, for a period of 90 days from time garment is delivered to customers, such customers’ records as relate to identification marks, and names and addresses of customers.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Penalties.">Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not more than $100 or to imprisonment of not more than 3 months in the Baltimore City Jail, or, in the discretion of the Court, to both fine and imprisonment for each offense.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1966, art. 19, §47</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 19, §54</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 53-734</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-672</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
