Monrovia Municipal Code Ch. 5.52 Hospitals

For the purpose of this chapter a HOSPITAL shall mean any institution or place used for the reception or care, temporary or continuous, of two or more sick, injured or dependent persons, or used for the treatment of two or more persons suffering from or afflicted with any mental or physical disease or bodily injury, including all hydropathic and massage institutions.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.010)

It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the regularly constituted authorities of the United States, the state, the county or the city, to open, conduct, manage or maintain any hospital as defined in this chapter within the corporate limits of the city without first having obtained a permit in writing from the City Council so to do, as provided in this chapter.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.020)

(A) Any person desiring such permit shall apply in writing to the City Council and shall truly state in such application the location or proposed location of the hospital, the purpose for which it is to be operated, conducted or maintained, the accommodations for the inmates thereof, the nature and kind of treatments given or proposed to be give therein, and the name and address of the person that shall own such hospital, and also the name and address of the person, if other than such owner, who shall actually conduct and manage such hospital.

(B) It shall be the duty of the Council upon the presentation of such application to make or cause to be made strict inquiry into the facts set out in such application and if upon such inquiry the Council shall find such hospital is or is intended to be so conducted as to afford proper accommodations for the care of the persons received therein, and that such hospital complies or is intended to comply with all the laws, ordinances, rules and regulations which shall then be in force in the city concerning the location, management and control of such hospitals, then the Council may grant a permit to conduct such hospital, and shall issue or cause to be issued a permit attested to by the City Clerk authorizing such applicant to open, conduct, manage or maintain a hospital at the place, in the manner and for the purpose in such application set forth.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.030)

It shall be unlawful for any person to build, construct, maintain, conduct or manage in any block in the city in which two-thirds of the buildings fronting on both sides of the street or streets on which the proposed hospital may front, are devoted exclusively to residence purposes, any hospital, unless the owners of the majority of the frontage in such block and the owners of the majority of the frontage on the opposite side or sides of the street or streets on which such building faces, consent in writing to the building, constructing or maintaining, managing or conducting of any such hospital in such block. Such written consent of the majority of such property owners shall be filed with the City Council before a permit shall be granted for the building or constructing or a permit be issued for the maintaining, conducting or managing of any such hospital.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.040)

No hospital of any kind or description shall hereafter by erected or established within 250 feet of any property used for public school purposes.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.050)

It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate, maintain or conduct within the city any hospital, sanatorium or other place for the reception or care of persons affected with tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other contagious or infectious disease, within 100 feet of any private residence or dwelling.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.060)

Every hospital conducted, maintained or managed by any person having a permit issued under this chapter shall at all reasonable times be opened to the inspection of the Health Officer of the city, or of any person duly appointed by the City Council to make such inspection, and the Council is hereby authorized and empowered to inspect the same or cause inspection thereof to be made whenever and as often as they may deem proper. And if upon such inspection the Council shall find any such hospital to be conducted, managed or maintained in violation of the terms of the application for the permit under which said hospital was opened, conducted, managed or maintained, or in violation of any of the provisions of this code, or of any of the health or sanitary laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the city, then the Council shall revoke such permit issued for the opening, conducting, managing or maintaining of such hospital, or the permit may be revoked for any good and sufficient cause in the discretion of the Council.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.070)

Any person, association or corporation, opening, conducting, managing or maintaining a hospital, as defined in this chapter, within the city without first having obtained a permit therefor, as provided in this chapter, or after revocation of such permit, or in violation of any of the terms of this chapter, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine or by imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment as provided elsewhere in this code.

(`83 Code, § 5.52.080)