HomeMy WebLinkAbout3048 AN ORDINANCE providing for the licensing of
group residential facilities established for
the purpose of providing social adjustment,
treatment, rehabilitation and education of
persons temporarily previously removed from
society.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. Definitions.
1. Group Residential Facility: Group residential
facility means a dwelling which is operated as an overnight
residence for more than five adults who have been temporarily,
previously removed from society and the purpose of which is
to provide an opportunity to those residents, through a planned
program, to better themselves through social adjustment, treatment,
rehabilitation and education.
2. License Application Form: License application
form means that form provided by the Clerk of the City of
Bremerton upon which application may be made for the establishment
of a group residential facility.
3. Director: Director means that person designated
as the person in authority and having the primary responsibility
in the management and operation of the group residential facility.
4. Residents: Residents means those persons residing
within the group residential facility.~
5. Person: Person has its usual meaning, and in addition
means any group formally or informally organized, corporation,
partnership or association being either profit or non-profit.
Section 2. Establishment.
Group residential facilities may be established in
any zone classification within the City of Bremerton except
residential one (R-i).
Section 3. Application for License.
Any person desiring to estabtis~ a group residential
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facility shall first make application to the Clerk of the City
of Bremerton on such uniform application form as that official
shall provide. No fee shall be charged for the license
application. Upon the filing of the license application, the
Clerk shall forthwith deliver duplicate copies thereof to
the Chief of Police, the Planning Director and to the Department
of Social and Health Services, Division of Probation and Parole.
Section 4. Investigation and Recommendation.
Upon receipt of the license application the Planning
Director and the Chief of Police shall investigate the
application and make recommendation to the City Council of
the City of Bremerton as to whether the license should or
should not be granted. The person making the license
application shall provide any additional information as may
be requested by the Planning Director or the Chief of Police
in connection with their investigation. The Planning Director
and the Chief of Police shall report their respective
recommendations to the City Council no later than twenty (20)
days after their receipt of the license application.
The Department of Social and Health Services,
Division of Probation and Parole, shall be requested by the
Clerk to make an investigation and recommendation as to
whether the license should or should not be granted. Failure
of the Department of Social and Health Services, Division
of Probation and Parole, to forward recommendations within
twenty (20) days of receipt of the application for license
shall constitute sufficient cause for denial by the City
Council of the license.
Section 5. Public Hearing.
Within ten (10) days of the receipt of the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Police, the Planning Director and the
Dspartment of Social and Health Services, Division of Probation
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and Parole, the City Council shall set a date for public hearing
on the license application, which hearing shall be held
within twenty (20) days of the day the hearing date is set.
Section 6. Notice.
Notice of the public hearing shall be given by
publication once in a daily newspaper of general circulation
within the City of Bremerton.
Section 7. Determination.
At the conclusion of the public hearing the City
Council shall announce its decision to reject or grant the
license requested.
Section 8. License Duration.
The license shall be for a term of one calendar year
and shall be renewed each successive year the group residential
facility is in operation.
Section 9. License Renewal.
The license may be renewed upon timely application
to the City Clerk upon such renewal application form as shall
be provided by that official. No fee shall be charged for
license renewal.
Section 10. License Revocation.
Any license herein granted may be summarily revoked
without notice upon a determination by the Council that the
best interests of the City of Bremerton would be served thereby.
Section 11. Responsibility of Director.
The Director shall be responsible for the operation
and management of the group residential facility. He
shall be in close contact with the Chief of Police and
shall provide the Chief of Police with such information as
the Chief of Police may require so as to keep the City Council
fully informed as to the activiities and operations of the group
residential facility. The Director shall at all times provide the
Chief of Police with a current list of the names of the residents.
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APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton
on first reading this /~?~day of OctOber, 1972.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage this ~Z~
day of ~~~ , 1972.
· JARS~ Mayor
ATTEST:
~. C. Y~ADON, SR., City Clerk
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