Section 800.50  Licenses Required

a)         No person on parole, probation, or supervision for a sex offense shall reside in a building or premises in which another person known to be a sex offender or known to have been placed on supervision for a sex offense resides, except in a Department licensed Transitional Housing facility.  Any person, group of persons, corporation, or other entity who desires to develop, establish, maintain, or operate a Transitional Housing facility for sex offenders who are on parole, probation, or supervision must obtain a license from the Department prior to commencing operations.  Transitional Housing licenses shall be issued for the specific level of the facility.

1)         Level I licenses shall be issued to facilities that may house more than one but not more than 20 sex offenders on parole, probation, or supervision.

2)         Level II licenses shall be issued to facilities that have a Department of Human Services license under 77 Ill. Adm. Code 2060 and that have fewer than ten sex offender residents, or no more than ten percent of the total residency be sex offenders on parole, probation, or supervision, whichever is less.

b)         Before a Transitional Housing license may be granted, the licensing applicant must certify its compliance with federal, State, and local laws, as well as all applicable federal, State, and local building, zoning, planning, land use, health, and sanitation regulations, and fire safety requirements of the State Fire Marshal.

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