Section 800.120  Required Notices

a)         Facility Postings

1)         Upon initial licensure and during the period of licensure, the licensee shall maintain at the main entrance a visible and conspicuous exterior sign in at least four inch high letters identifying the facility as a "Department of Corrections Licensed Transitional Housing Facility".

2)         The license issued by the Department shall be publicly displayed at the facility at all times.

b)         Facility Filing and Publication

1)         Upon initial licensure, the licensee shall file with the office of the county clerk of the county in which the facility is located a certificate setting forth the name the facility is operating under and the true or real full names of persons or entities operating the facility.

2)         The licensee shall publish the filing of the notice of licensure in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the certificate is filed.  The notice shall be published once per week for three consecutive weeks with the first publication within 15 days after the certificate is filed with the county clerk.

3)         Proof of publication shall be filed with the county clerk within 50 days from the date of filing the certificate.  Unless proof of publication is made to the county clerk, the notification is void.

c)         The licensee shall notify the police department, public and private elementary and secondary schools, public libraries, and each residential home and apartment complex located within 500 feet of the Transitional Housing facility of its initial licensing as a Transitional Housing facility and, annually thereafter, of its continuing operation as a Transitional Housing facility.

d)         The Department shall, within one week of issuance of a Transitional Housing license, submit written notification to the Illinois State Police of the licensure, the address of the facility, and the maximum number of sex offenders that can be housed at the facility for inclusion on the Illinois State Police Offender Registry website.

(Source:  Expedited correction at 30 Ill. Reg. 8669, effective January 1, 2006)