A "private care institution" is defined as any of the following
facilities: a hospital, maternity hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium
or any other facility used for the reception or care of one or more
mentally or physically ailing, sick, injured or dependent persons.
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, maintain or
operate any private care institution without first having duly obtained
a written permit from the Permits and Licenses Committee so to do.
Any person desiring to erect, establish, maintain or operate
any such private care institution shall file with the Permits and
Licenses Committee an application for a permit so to do, setting forth
in said application the name of such person, the location and nature
of the private care institution proposed, including the physical description
of the property and facilities proposed to be involved, as well as
a record legal description of the location thereof. Such application
shall be verified by the applicant.
The Permits and Licenses Committee may require applicant to
obtain and file with the Committee a statement signed by the owners
of at least sixty percent of the area of private property contained
within a district bounded by an exterior boundary line distant six
hundred feet from and at all points parallel to the exterior boundary
line of the lot, piece or parcel of property upon which such proposed
hospital, maternity hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium or institution
for the treatment of diseases or mental or physical ailments or conditions,
is so to be erected, established, maintained or operated. There shall
be set forth after each of the signatures upon any such statement,
the number of the lot and block owned by such signer, the name, if
any, of the tract wherein such lot is situated, and the proper reference
to the book and page of the recorded map of such lot or tract.
The Permits and Licenses Committee shall hear the application
in accordance with the procedures adopted by the Committee governing
hearings generally; provided, however, that the Committee shall approve,
approve with conditions, or disapprove of the application within sixty
days from date of filing of same. An appeal may be taken from the
determination of the Committee in the form and manner provided in
this Code for appeals from the Committee generally.
Any permit to operate a private care institution may be revoked
or suspended by the Permits and Licenses Committee or City Council
following a hearing at which it is shown that any of the following
facts have occurred:
(a) The applicant
has violated any code provision relating to sanitation or health;
or
(b) The private
care institution has been or is being operated or maintained without
due regard for the health, comfort or morality of the patients or
inmates thereof or without due regard for the public health, comfort
or morality of the City or of the residents in the vicinity of such
institution.
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain
or conduct any hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium, or other place for
the reception and care of persons affected with tuberculosis, diphtheria
or scarlet fever, within six hundred feet of any church, school, house
or dwelling.
Every person operating or maintaining a hospital, maternity
hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium, or institution for the treatment
of diseases or mental or physical ailments or conditions, shall keep
a register wherein shall be entered the names and addresses of all
inmates or persons received for treatment or treated in such hospital,
maternity hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium, or institution, and of
all children born therein.
The register shall also contain the name and age of every child
who is given out to, or adopted, or taken therefrom by, any person,
together with the name and residence of the person so adopting or
taking such child therefrom, and within forty-eight hours after such
child is given out, or taken away, the person operating or conducting
such hospital, maternity hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium, or institution
shall cause a correct copy of the register relating to such child
to be delivered to the Health Officer of the City.
The Health Officer shall have the right at all reasonable times
to enter and inspect any such hospital, maternity hospital, sanitarium,
sanitorium, or institution for the treatment of diseases or mental
or physical ailments or conditions, and to visit the inmates therein,
and to inspect the permit and the register and the sanitary condition
of any such hospital, maternity hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium,
or institution.
It shall be unlawful for any person operating, managing, maintaining,
or in control of any hospital, maternity hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium,
or institution for the treatment of diseases or mental or physical
ailments or conditions, to fail, neglect or refuse to permit or allow
the Health Officer, his assistants, deputies or inspectors, at all
reasonable times, to enter and inspect any such hospital, maternity
hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium, or institution, or to visit the
inmates therein, or to inspect the permit or register, or sanitary
condition of any such hospital, maternity hospital, sanitarium, sanitorium
or institution.
(Ord. 1267 1-1-56)