As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
BOARDING HOME FOR CHILDREN
Any home or house or other place conducted by any person or association who advertises himself or holds himself out as conducting a boarding home for children or who has in his custody or control one or more children, unattended by parents or guardians, for the purpose of providing such children with food and lodging, excepting children related to him by blood or marriage or have been legally adopted by him.
It shall be unlawful for any person or association to conduct or maintain a boarding home for children or to engage in or assist in conducting a business of placing children without having a written license therefor from the Board of Health of the Borough of Rutherford, provided that nothing in this code shall apply to any institution or department maintained or operated by the State of New Jersey.
Every such license shall state the name of the licensee; the particular premises in or at which the business shall be carried on; and the number of children that may be maintained, boarded or cared for at any one time.
No greater number of children shall be kept at any one time on the premises than is authorized in the license and no children shall be kept or disposed of within a building or place not designated in the license. No license shall be granted unless a boarding home conforms to the standards and regulations of the Board of Health.
The record of such license when issued shall be kept by the Board of Health. Said licenses shall be subject to revocation for violation of any of the regulations mentioned therein or whenever, in the judgment of the Board of Health, such boarding home is no longer needed or is not conducive to the well-being of the children.
The Board of Health shall visit and inspect, or designate persons to visit and inspect, the premises and investigate the manner of conducting the business licensed. Said Board and such persons shall have the right to call for and examine the records required by these regulations to be kept and to inquire into all matters concerning such licensed premises and the children therein, and it shall be the duty of the licensee to give all information to such persons and afford them every reasonable facility for examining the records, inspecting the premises and seeing the inmates thereof.
Every person, firm, corporation or association conducting a boarding home for children or engaged in the placing of children as defined in these regulations shall keep a record, in a form to be prescribed by the Board of Health, wherein shall be entered the name, age, sex, color and religion of every child cared for or treated by him, brought to him for placing, finding a home for, giving out for adoption or otherwise disposing of, together with the name and address of each of the parents of said child, the name of every child who dies while in his care, together with date of such death, also the name and residence of the person with whom the child is placed or by whom it is adopted, this entry to be made 24 hours after such child is given out, taken away or disposed of in any manner. A true copy of such record shall be sent to the Board of Health at such times as the Board of Health shall require.
All licensees must submit to the Board of Health a surety bond for $1,000 for each child boarded or to be boarded from outside of the state.