§ 47-18.23. Nursing home.

A.

Nursing homes shall be subject to the following dispersal requirements:

1.

They shall not be located within one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet of any other nursing home.

2.

No such facility shall be enlarged, increased in bed capacity or expanded in any respect, nor converted from one (1) facility use to another, if located within one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet of any other facility.

3.

The foregoing distance requirements shall be measured and computed by following a straight line from the nearest property line of the proposed facility (or the facility proposed for enlargement, increased bed capacity, expansion or conversion) to the nearest existing facility property line.

4.

Nursing homes which are in existence on the effective date of this ordinance and which have been licensed and approved by either the State of Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services or another applicable regulatory agency and which are presently located within one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet of another public or private nursing facility shall be exempt from the applicable distance requirement unless proposed for enlargement, increased bed capacity or expansion or conversion, in any respect.

(Ord. No. C-97-19, § 1(47-18.22), 6-18-97)