Chap. 6.—An ACT providing for the regulation and inspection of public laun-
dries and public washhouses within the cities of the State.

Approved February 9, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the boards
of health of the respective cities of the State of Virginia (where such
cities have such boards of health) shall supervise all laundries or public
wash-houses within any city of the State of Virginia and shall not per-
mit the employment, by any public laundry or public washhouse, of any
person suffering with an infectious or contagious disease; nor allow any
person to sleep in such public laundry or public washhouse or in any
room adjoining and opening into such public laundry or public wash-
house, and every room in such laundry or washhouse that is used for the
purpose of washing or drying clothes, shall be properly ventilated and
drained and shall be used for no purposes other than that specified. The
floors of all rooms used for the purpose of washing clothes shall, if re-
quired by the regulations of the local board of health, be made of cement
or other mineral substance, and shall be arranged so as to be easily
drained. A public laundry or public washhouse within the meaning of
this section shall be any place within any city of the State of Virginia,
licensed to conduct a laundry in any of its branches. Any person, firm
or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than fifty
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

Any person, firm or corporation conducting a public laundry or public
washhouse within a distance of a half mile of the city limits of any city
of the State of Virginia shall be subject to the provisions of this act.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the washing of
clothes in any private residence where no license to do washing is required.