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SIGNAL HILL, CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL CODE
PREFACE
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Title 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
Title 4 (Reserved)
Title 5 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 (Reserved)
Title 8 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 8.04 PUBLIC HEALTH CODE
Chapter 8.08 REFUSE REGULATIONS*
Chapter 8.10 SOLID WASTE
Chapter 8.11 ORGANIC WASTE DISPOSAL REDUCTION
Chapter 8.12 NUISANCES*
Chapter 8.13 ADMINISTRATIVE CITATIONS
CHAPTER 8.14 SINGLE-USE FOODWARE ACCESSORIES AND STANDARD CONDIMENTS
Chapter 8.16 INSTITUTIONS
8.16.010 Definitions.
8.16.020 License--Required.
8.16.030 Inspection--Authority.
8.16.040 Inspection--Opening required.
8.16.050 Permit--Required.
8.16.060 Permit--Application contents.
8.16.070 Permit--Investigation fee.
8.16.080 Permit--Application investigation.
8.16.090 Permit--Granting.
8.16.100 Permit--Term--Renewal.
8.16.110 Permit--Suspension and revocation.
8.16.120 General sanitary regulations.
8.16.130 Toilets for kitchen workers.
8.16.140 Diseased kitchen workers prohibited.
8.16.150 Drugs and poisons prohibited in kitchens.
8.16.160 Garbage disposal.
8.16.170 Employees' quarters.
8.16.180 Milk supply.
8.16.190 Emergency lighting.
8.16.200 Classrooms.
8.16.210 Toilet facilities--Homes for the aged and mental institutions.
8.16.220 Toilet facilities--Private boarding schools and children's boarding homes.
8.16.230 Toilet facilities--Private boarding schools and private day schools.
8.16.240 Toilet facilities--Day nurseries and day nursery schools.
8.16.250 Sleeping quarters--Homes for aged and mental institutions.
8.16.260 Sleeping quarters - Private boarding schools and children's boarding homes.
8.16.270 Sleeping quarters - Private day schools, day nurseries, day nursery schools, and children's boarding homes.
8.16.280 Isolation rooms.
8.16.290 Registries.
8.16.300 Prevention of communicable diseases.
8.16.310 Physician's statement required following certain illnesses.
8.16.320 Daily health inspections.
8.16.330 Play yards and play equipment.
8.16.340 Patients' utensils - Homes for the aged and mental institutions.
8.16.350 Variances.
8.16.360 Penalty for violations.
Chapter 8.20 WEED ABATEMENT
Chapter 8.24 RAT AND VERMIN CONTROL
Chapter 8.25 VECTOR CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
Chapter 8.28 AIR POLLUTION
Chapter 8.29 MOBILE SOURCE AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION
Chapter 8.32 EXCAVATIONS AND ABANDONED BOXES
Chapter 8.40 RESIDENCE INSPECTION PROGRAM
Chapter 8.42 UNDERGROUND AND ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANKS
Chapter 8.44 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE PLANS
Chapter 8.46 HAZARDOUS WASTE CONTROL
Chapter 8.48 SECURITY ALARM SYSTEMS
Chapter 8.52 ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION OF SMOKING WITHIN PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT
Chapter 8.54 ABANDONED SHOPPING CARTS
Chapter 8.56 LOS ANGELES COUNTY BODY ART REGULATIONS
Chapter 8.58 VACANT PROPERTIES AND BOARDING REGULATIONS
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Title 11 (Reserved)
Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Title 13 PUBLIC UTILITIES
Title 14 (Reserved)
Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Title 16 OIL AND GAS CODE*
Title 17 TRAILER PARKS
Title 18 SUBDIVISIONS*
Title 19 (Reserved)
Title 20 ZONING
Title 21 PUBLIC DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT FEES TO BE PAID BY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES
PRIOR CODE CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
Chapter 8.16
INSTITUTIONS
Sections:
   8.16.010   Definitions.
   8.16.020   License--Required.
   8.16.030   Inspection--Authority.
   8.16.040   Inspection--Opening required.
   8.16.050   Permit--Required.
   8.16.060   Permit--Application contents.
   8.16.070   Permit--Investigation fee.
   8.16.080   Permit--Application investigation.
   8.16.090   Permit--Granting.
   8.16.100   Permit--Term--Renewal.
   8.16.110   Permit--Suspension and revocation.
   8.16.120   General sanitary regulations.
   8.16.130   Toilets for kitchen workers.
   8.16.140   Diseased kitchen workers prohibited.
   8.16.150   Drugs and poisons prohibited in kitchens.
   8.16.160   Garbage disposal.
   8.16.170   Employees' quarters.
   8.16.180   Milk supply.
   8.16.190   Emergency lighting.
   8.16.200   Classrooms.
   8.16.210   Toilet facilities--Homes for the aged and mental institutions.
   8.16.220   Toilet facilities--Private boarding schools and children's boarding homes.
   8.16.230   Toilet facilities--Private boarding schools and private day schools.
   8.16.240   Toilet facilities--Day nurseries and day nursery schools.
   8.16.250   Sleeping quarters--Homes for aged and mental institutions.
   8.16.260   Sleeping quarters--Private boarding schools and children's boarding homes.
   8.16.270   Sleeping quarters--Private day schools, day nurseries, day nursery schools, and children's boarding homes.
   8.16.280   Isolation rooms.
   8.16.290   Registries.
   8.16.300   Prevention of communicable diseases.
   8.16.310   Physician's statement required following certain illnesses.
   8.16.320   Daily health inspections.
   8.16.330   Play yards and play equipment.
   8.16.340   Patients' utensils--Homes for the aged and mental institutions.
   8.16.350   Variances.
   8.16.360   Penalty for violations.
8.16.010   Definitions.
   For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and phrases are defined, and certain provisions shall be construed, as set forth in this section unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended:
   A.   "Children's boarding home" means any institution or establishment providing room and board for the reception and care of one or more children below the age of eighteen years, regardless of sex, unrelated to the caretaker, in the absence of parents or guardian, with or without compensation.
   B.   "Day nursery" or "day nursery school" means any establishment providing day care for children between the ages of two years and four years six months, inclusive, but shall not include any day nursery or day nursery school maintained by any public school or the federal government. If day care is also provided for children over four years six months of age, as to all children under four years six months of age, the establishment shall be considered as a day nursery or a day nursery school.
   C.   "Home for the aged" means any institution, boarding home, or other place for the reception or care of one or more aged persons sixty-five years of age or over, except any hospital as defined in the Health and Safety Code of the State of California.
   D.   "Mental institution" means any hospital, sanitarium, home, or other place receiving or caring for any insane, allegedly insane, mentally ill, mentally retarded or mentally incompetent person, but shall not include any institution or establishment maintained by any public agency.
   E.   "Private boarding school" means any institution or establishment providing room and board and giving a course of training similar to that given in any grade of public school from kindergarten to the twelfth grade, inclusive, but shall not include any establishment maintained by a public school.
   F.   "Private day school" shall mean any establishment providing a course of training similar to that given in any grade of public school from kindergarten to the twelfth grade, inclusive, but shall not include any establishment maintained by any public school.
(Prior code §§ 6.08.010--6.08.070 (Ord. 349 § 1, 1951))
8.16.020   License--Required.
   No person shall operate, maintain, or conduct a home for the aged, mental institution, private day school, day nursery, day nursery school, private boarding school or children's boarding home in the city without first having a license so to do and paying the fee therefor as provided by the ordinances of the city.
(Prior code § 6.08.470 (Ord. 349 § 33, 1951))
8.16.030   Inspection--Authority.
   It shall be the duty of the health officer, or his duly authorized representative, to investigate all homes for the aged, mental institutions, private day schools, day nurseries, day nursery schools, private boarding schools and children's boarding homes in the city and to ascertain whether such institutions are being conducted so as to comply with all the laws relating to sanitation and public health, and to recommend suspension or revocation of permits as provided in this chapter, or criminal prosecution for the violation thereof.
(Prior code § 6.08.080 (Ord. 349 § 2, 1951))
8.16.040   Inspection--Opening required.
   Every home for the aged, mental institution, private day school, day nursery, day nursery school, private boarding school, and children's boarding home shall, at all reasonable times, be open to the inspection of the health officer of the city or of any person duly authorized by him to make such inspection.
(Prior code § 6.08.090 (Ord. 349 § 3, 1951))
8.16.050   Permit--Required.
   No person shall conduct, operate, or maintain any home for the aged, mental institution, private day school, day nursery or day nursery school, private boarding school, or children's boarding home unless he holds a valid, unrevoked and unsuspended permit so to do, issued by the city council.
(Prior code § 6.08.100 (Ord. 349 § 4, 1951))
8.16.060   Permit--Application contents.
   Any person desiring a permit to conduct, operate or maintain a home for the aged, mental institution, private day school, day nursery, day nursery school, private boarding school or children's boarding home in the city shall make application therefor to the city council on triplicate forms to be provided by the building inspector, which application shall state the name of the proposed home for the aged, mental institution, private day school, day nursery, day nursery school, private boarding school or children's boarding home, its address or proposed location, the names and addresses of all persons interested in the ownership thereof, the number of accommodations provided therein, and such other, further, pertinent information as the city council may require, which application shall be duly verified under oath. Upon receipt of such application, the building inspector shall immediately transmit one copy of the application to the health officer, and one copy to the fire chief.
(Prior code § 6.08.110 (Ord. 543 (part), 1963: Ord. 349 § 5, 1951))
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