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• • ORDINANCE No. q ;71. AN ORDININCE relating to the licensing and supervision of "Places of Refuge" ; defining terms; describing the duties of officers in connection therewith; fixing fees; providing for appeal from certain decisions; defining offenses and providing penalties, and declaring an emergency. THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: The term "Place of Refuge" when used in this Ordinance shall mean any hospital, asylum, alms house, build- ing or dwelling for housing the aged, infirm, imbeciles, children or delinquents, wherein three or more persons, not related by blood or marriage to the householder, owner, operator or manager thereof, are lodged or boarded more than Fifteen (15) days in any calendar month; PROVIDED, that the term shall not include any hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons or the American College of Physicians. Section 2 : No person, firm or corporation shall mai tain or advertise the maintenance of aay Place of Refuge without applying for and receiving from the City Council of the City of Everett a license for the operation of such Place of Refuge. Suc license shall be issued annually on or before July 1st of each calendar year and shall expire on June 30th of each year. The fee for such license shall be Two Dollars ( 2.00) per year. Section 3: The City Council of the City of Everett shall have authority to grant any license to any Place of Refuge, but said license shall be issued only after proper inspection by the City Health Officer and City Fire Chief of the premises where said Place of Refuge is to be operated. Section 4: The City Council shall have the right to deny or revoke a license to any Place of Refuge if upon inspecti thereof, it is found that the Place of Refuge is unsanitary or i an unsafe condition as relates to health or fire hazards; PROVID that the City Council shall promptly notify the owner, operator or manager of such Place of Refuge as to the manner in which the premises may qualify for a license and set forth the conditions to be remedied previous to such licensing, renewal or revocation. Section 5 : The said Places of Refuge shall comply with Chapter 13 requirements for Group H buildings of the Building Code of the City of Everett. Section 6: Any owner, operator or manager of such Place of Refuge, deeming any order of the City Council arbitrary or contrary to law :lay demand and obtain, within Ten (10) days of request therefor , e formal order of denial or revocation. Such order shall set forth findings as to conditions on or about such premises which caused such denial or revocation of such license.