No person shall conduct or maintain a maternity
home or engage in conducting a business of attending women during
pregnancy, labor or lying-in period outside their several homes without
first having obtained a license therefor from the Board covering all
the premises intended to be so used.
Every application for such license shall state
the following:
A. The name of proposed licensee.
B. A particular description of the premises and building
in or at which the same is contemplated to be conducted.
C. The maximum number of women and infants to be cared
for at any one time.
[Amended 10-13-1992 by Ord. No. 2375]
The license fee for conducting a maternity home shall be as set forth in Chapter
145, Fees. The fee is intended to be an annual fee but, when paid, shall cover only the balance of the calendar year during which the same is so paid or payable.
The licensee shall at all times keep and maintain
complete records in the form to be prescribed by the Board and covering
the name, age, color, religion, place of residence and such other
information concerning the care, maintenance, treatment and progress
of all customers, patrons and patients, together with full and complete
records of any and every kind concerning births, deaths, disease or
illness as are now or hereafter may be required by an regulation of
law, statute or ordinance.
All records required to be kept under this article
shall be open to inspection, check and audit by the Division of Health
or any of its duly authorized representatives.
The provisions of this article shall not apply
to any institution or department maintained or operated by the state
or by any county, municipality or subdivision thereof or a hospital
duly licensed by the State Board of Control of the Department of Institutions
and Agencies.
No maternity home shall be operated in conjunction
with a boarding home for children.
No women or infants shall be kept, cared for
or administered to within any place or building not designated in
the license.
In addition, the same regulations shall apply to the conduct and maintenance of a maternity home and the premises and buildings used in connection therewith as are provided in Article
III regarding the conduct and maintenance of boarding homes for children.