Chapter 2.24
WINDOW CLEANING

Sections:

2.24.010    State safety law adopted.

2.24.020    Compliance with safety law required.

2.24.030    Liability insurance – Prerequisite to doing business.

2.24.040    Violations – Penalty.

2.24.010 State safety law adopted.

Standard 68 – Window Washing – State of Washington, General Safety Standards, as compiled by the Division of Safety, Department of Labor and Industries, three copies of which have heretofore been filed with city clerk of the city of Wenatchee and any amendments or additions hereto hereafter made and adopted by the Division of Safety, Department of Labor and Industries, when printed and filed with the city clerk of the city of Wenatchee as provided by RCW 32.21.180, are adopted by the city of Wenatchee, a municipal corporation, and by this reference are made a part of this chapter. (Ord. 1386 § 1, 1954)

2.24.020 Compliance with safety law required.

It is unlawful for any person to engage in window cleaning, or for any owner, lessor, lessee, or other person in charge of premises to permit any person to engage in window cleaning, in violation of the safety standards prescribed in Standard 68 referred to in WCC 2.24.010. (Ord. 1386 § 2, 1954)

2.24.030 Liability insurance – Prerequisite to doing business.

All persons, firms or corporations engaged in window cleaning, are required, as a condition precedent to engaging in window cleaning in the city of Wenatchee, to execute and deliver and file evidence thereof with the clerk of the city of Wenatchee, a good and sufficient policy of liability insurance in the sum of $25,000, executed by an insurance company qualified to do business in the state of Washington, in form satisfactory to the city engineer. Said policy shall insure the permittee and name the city of Wenatchee as an additional insured, and shall inure to the benefit of all persons suffering loss or damage either to person or property by reason of wrongful or negligent acts in the cleaning of windows. (Ord. 1711, 1962; Ord. 1386 § 3, 1954)

2.24.040 Violations – Penalty.

Any person who violates or who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or who counsels, aids, abets, or permits any such violation or failure to comply with the same is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine in any sum not to exceed $100.00 or by imprisonment in the city jail for a term not exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 1386 § 4, 1954)