Chapter 5.84
NURSING HOMES
Sections:
5.84.010 Nursing home defined.
5.84.060 Ventilation and floor space.
5.84.010 Nursing home defined.
For the purpose of this chapter, “nursing home” means any institution, place or family used for the reception or care, for a longer period than twenty-four hours, of three or more children or infants apart from their parents. A home is further defined to mean any institution used for the reception or care of persons who are dependent or not capable of properly caring for themselves, and shall be understood to include homes for the aged or infirm, orphan asylums, refuges and shelters and also boarding homes caring for three or more women with their children when such children are less than fourteen years of age. Such establishments shall be classed as a commercial use.
5.84.020 License required.
It is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation, other than the regularly constituted authorities of the United States, the county, the village or of the state of Illinois, or any association or institution for the care of children which has been accredited, certified or licensed by the state, pursuant to an act of the legislature, to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children, to open, conduct, manage or maintain any home, as defined in this chapter, within the corporate limits of the village, without first obtaining a license therefor as provided in this chapter.
5.84.030 Application.
Any person, firm, association or corporation desiring such license shall make application in writing to the village clerk. Such application shall conform to the general provisions of this code relating to applications for licenses and shall state the location or proposed location of the home; the purpose for which it is to be opened, conducted or maintained; the accommodations for the inmates thereof; the nature and kind of care, instruction or benefits given or proposed to be given therein; the name and address of the officials and/or board of officials conducting, managing or maintaining the home; the name of the superintendent or person in charge of the home; the name and address of the chief physician, surgeon or attending physician or surgeon, or the names and addresses of the board of physicians or surgeons attending therein if there is such a board.
5.84.040 Inspection.
It shall be the duty of the health officer, upon a presentation of such application, to make or cause to be made strict inquiry into the facts set out in such application, and if upon inquiry and inspection he shall find that such home complies with all ordinances and statutes relating thereto, he shall recommend to the president and board of trustees that a license be issued.
5.84.050 Fee.
The license fee for nursing homes shall be one hundred ten dollars per year for up to six beds capacity and eleven dollars for each additional bed. (Ord. 2010-08A § 17, 2010; Ord. 2010-08 § 17, 2010; Ord. 2002-07 § 43, 2002; Ord. 89-5 § 39, 1989)
5.84.060 Ventilation and floor space.
In every such home each room occupied or to be occupied by inmates shall be of such dimensions as shall give each inmate not less than four hundred cubic feet of air space. Every such room shall have at least one window connecting with the external air for each four beds. The windows shall be of such dimensions as shall secure to each inmate at least one thousand five hundred cubic feet of fresh air per hour by ventilation, or in case the window shall not secure one thousand five hundred cubic feet of fresh air per hour by natural ventilation, then each room shall, in addition thereto, be fitted with such appliances for ventilation as shall secure to each inmate in the room at least one thousand five hundred cubic feet of fresh air per hour. Each bed shall have at least forty square feet of floor space, and in every room or dormitory containing more than one bed, the beds shall be so arranged as to leave a passageway of not less than two feet horizontally on all sides of each bed.
5.84.070 Plumbing.
Each ward or wing in the home shall have running water furnished in one or more places, either in the ward or convenient thereto so that the same may be adequate and convenient to the occupants thereof. The plumbing, water closets, bathrooms and other sanitary appliances and equipment shall be constructed in accordance with the village ordinances relating thereto. The floor of the cellar or basement in the building used as a home shall be properly cemented so as to be watertight.
5.84.080 Hallways and exits.
The halls of each floor shall be open to the external air with suitable windows, and shall have no room or other obstruction at either end thereof, unless sufficient light and ventilation is otherwise provided for such halls, and the building as a whole shall be provided with adequate and proper fire escapes, stairways or inclines for exit.
5.84.090 Screens.
All homes, including the culinary department, dining rooms, laundry, laboratory, morgue and post-mortem rooms connected with the same, shall be equipped from May 15th to November 15th with doors, screens and other appliances necessary for the exclusion of flies.