§ 1401-01-T. Transitional Housing.

"Transitional housing" means housing designed to assist persons in obtaining skills necessary for independent living in permanent housing, including homes for adjustment and halfway houses. Transitional housing is housing in which:

(a)

An organization provides a program of therapy, counseling or training for the residential occupants;

(b)

The organization operating the program is licensed or authorized by a governmental authority having jurisdiction over operation; and

(c)

The program is for the purpose of assisting the residential occupants in one or more of the following types of care:

(1)

Protection from abuse and neglect;

(2)

Developing skills necessary to adjust to life;

(3)

Adjusting to living with the handicaps of physical disability;

(4)

Adjusting to living with the handicaps of emotional or mental disorder or mental retardation;

(5)

Recuperation from the effects of drugs or alcohol, even if under criminal justice supervision; or

(6)

Readjusting to society while housed under criminal justice supervision including, but not limited to, pre-release, work-release and probationary programs.

(Ordained by Ord. No. 15-2004, eff. Feb. 13, 2004)