Victorville Municipal Code Ch. 6.20 Hospitals and Rest Homes

(a) "Hospital" as used in this code means any institution, place, building, or agency which maintains and operates facilities for one or more persons for the diagnosis, care and treatment of human illness to which persons may be admitted for overnight stay or longer. "Hospital" includes sanatorium, nursing home, convalescent home, or mental institution.

(b) "Rest home" as used in this code means any institution, place, building, or agency maintaining facilities for the board and care of one or more ambulatory persons who do not require nursing service or medical supervision. A "rest home" does not include a hotel, boarding house, guest ranch or other similar type establishments which are licensed under this code as public eating places.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.1)

No person shall be kept, cared for, or maintained as a patient in any room or ward of any hospital or rest home which provides less than one hundred square feet for single rooms or seventy square feet per person for multi-patient rooms. All beds shall be spaced not less than three feet apart except that beds used by tuberculosis patients shall be not less than four feet apart. Where a solid barrier at least six feet high is provided between beds, the distance between beds outlined in this section shall not be required.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.2)

Every such hospital, sanitarium, rest home or asylum wherein ten or more patients are housed shall be equipped with a separate room or space for isolation purposes, which shall be equipped with a separate toilet and bath.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.3)

All bedpans, urinals, and other utensils used for patients or inmates shall be free from cracks or chips. They shall be properly cleansed and sterilized immediately after use.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.4)

Toilet and utility rooms shall be provided for all bed patients. Where ten or more ambulatory patients or inmates are cared for or housed there shall be provided at least one toilet, two lavatories, and two baths or showers for each ten, or fractional part thereof, patients of each sex. All toilet rooms, lavatories, baths and showers shall be maintained free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, or corrosion.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.5)

All walls, floors, ceilings, woodwork, curtains and furnishings shall be maintained in a good, clean, sanitary condition, free from the accumulation of dirt and filth, and every room shall be provided with adequate ventilation, lighting and heat.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.6)

A barrier or other protection shall be placed around each stove or fireplace, and gas space heaters shall be connected to the supply line with a continuous metal pipe, and shall be properly and effectively vented to the outside air.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.7)

All windows and doors shall be screened and maintained in good condition so as to exclude flies and other insects.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.8)

There shall be maintained an adequate amount of bedding, linen, hand and bath towels, in good, clean condition, and each bed shall be supplied with good springs and a clean, comfortable mattress, and all beds and mattresses shall be kept in a sanitary condition and shall be thoroughly cleaned before being used by another person.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.9)

Every kitchen shall comply with the provisions of the California Restaurant Act and the provisions of Chapter 6.12, and for the purpose of such provisions shall be a public eating place.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.10)

Every kitchen shall have a convenient toilet or toilet rooms in connection therewith but separate and apart therefrom. Lavatories and wash rooms shall be adjacent to toilet room and shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. All operators, employees and all persons who handle food, before beginning work, shall be provided with clean garments, and immediately after visiting a toilet shall wash their hands and arms thoroughly with soap and water.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.11)

No drugs, medicines, or poisonous insecticides shall be kept in the kitchen.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.12)

No owner or employer shall require, permit or suffer any person to work nor shall any person work in a kitchen where food is prepared, served, kept, handled or stored, who is afflicted with any infectious or contagious disease.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.13)

All garbage and kitchen wastes must be kept in a tight, flyproof, metal container, and removed from the premises and disposed of in a sanitary manner at reasonably frequent intervals.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.14)

Employees' quarters where provided shall be constructed and maintained in compliance with the Labor Code of the state.

(Ord. 32 § 3 (part), 1968: prior code § 5104.15)