(A) Annual license. The Director shall provide for the issuance and renewal of licenses for shelters. The licenses shall be issued on forms prescribed by the Director. Each license, whether an original or a renewal license, shall expire at the end of one year from the date of its issuance (which date of expiration shall be stated upon its face) unless sooner revoked or surrendered. Licenses shall not be transferable either as to place or person. The license shall be displayed in a conspicuous place near the main entrance inside the shelter.
(B) Maximum number of occupants. Unless otherwise restricted by the special use permit granted for a specified shelter, the maximum number of occupants permitted to remain in any such shelter shall be computed by dividing the square footage of habitable floor area by 80 (resulting fractions to be disregarded) to a maximum of 20 occupants.
(C) Admission agreement. No owner, operator or manager of a shelter shall allow a person to occupy a shelter unless said person has completed a criminal history/warrants check with the city’s Police Department, signed an agreement stating that he or she understands that the stay is for a temporary period and does not intend the shelter to be a permanent residence.
(D) Staff requirements. Each shelter shall be staffed with at least two persons on duty and awake during operating hours. One of these persons shall be designated as night supervisor and shall be responsible for administration of the shelter during this time period.
(E) Records and reports. Every licensee shall keep and maintain such records and make such reports available to the Director of Health, Housing and Sanitation (herein referred to as the “Director”) as may reasonably be required to implement this subchapter, including, but not limited to, a list of names of all persons who stay overnight at the shelter and the dates of the stay. Data from such reports and from applications on file within the city shall be made available by the Director in accordance with disclosure requirements of the Public Records Act. Every licensee shall make available for view or inspection by the Chief of Police or his or her designee or officers on duty during the normal shelter business hours a list of names of all persons who are temporary or long term residents and those who stay overnight. Officers shall also be permitted to view such records or intake registries during non-regular business hours when an exigence/emergency is determined to exist by the responding officers and a good faith effort to notify on duty staff is attempted or made.
(1960 Code, § 7-26-8) (Ord. 7214, passed 1-5-2009) Penalty, see § 112.99