Title
Committee Report: Ordinance (Paper #273 - Chapter 12 relative to definitions of "family" and "rooming house")
Body
The Standing Committee on Ordinance, to whom was referred Paper #273 Series of 2014, having considered the same make the following report: Committee recommends that the paper be reported out with the following recommendations:
1. That the amendment to the definition "family" be rejected; and
2. That the amendment to the definition of "rooming house" be adopted in the following form:
"A dwelling unit in a building owned and/or operated by an individual who and/or an entity which retains legal possession, custody and care of the whole building and of every room therein and who or which may or may not be an occupant, in which three (3) or more individual persons not related by blood, marriage or adoption to the owner or operator, and/or with no property interest in the real estate and/or with no exclusive legal right to occupy and/or use the entirety of the building, are allowed to use and occupy only a specific or designated room or rooms in the building on either a transient or permanent basis, for compensation to the owner and/or operator, for sleeping and/or living and which may provide common facilities for cooking and sanitation. Rooming House includes lodging, boarding and tourists houses, fraternity houses and dormitories of educational institutions, and dormitories of charitable or philanthropic institutions; and excludes convalescent, nursing or rest homes licensed and/or regulated by agencies of the Commonwealth; group residences licensed or regulated by agencies of the Commonwealth; hotels, motels and inns."