(a) Every nursing home, rest home, home for the aged and similar facility operating within the City of Galion shall have an operational back-up electric generator of sufficient amperage to provide emergency electric power for heating, cooling, refrigeration, necessary lighting, necessary respiratory apparatus and other electrical equipment necessary to maintain operational status during a loss of electric power. Such generator shall be equipped with an automatic electrical transfer switch, to prevent electrical backfeed to the distribution system of the City. The Mayor or his designee may periodically check the homes and similar facilities located in the City for purposes of verifying the existence of such back-up electric generators and the fact that they are operational.
(b) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the meaning indicated:
(1) "Nursing home", "rest home" and "home for the aged" shall have the same meanings as defined and used for those terms in Ohio R.C. 3721.01(A).
(2) "Similar facility" means an institution or facility which is not included within the terms "nursing home", "rest home", or "home for the aged" as defined and used in Ohio R.C. 3721.01(A), but is similar in the sense that the facility is occupied by unrelated persons who are dependent upon the services of others by reason of illness, age, or mental or physical impairment, some of whom are also dependent upon electricity to operate health-related or other equipment for their safety and welfare.
(Ord. 92-5971. Passed 8-11-92.)