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BY-LAW NUMBER 2632 A BY-LAW TO AMEND BY-LAW #2035 TO PROVIDE FOR THE LICENSING, REGULATING AND GOVERNING OF LODGING HOUSES AND THE KEEPERS THEREOF. WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to provide for the licensing, regulating and governing of lodging houses and the keepers thereof and to provide for the revocation of any such license, in accordance with the provisions of Section 208 Subsection 61(a) of the Municipal Act, Chapter 302 R.S.O. 1980; THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the County of Essex enacts as follows: 1. (a) "Building Inspector" means the Building Inspector for the Municipality in which the lodging house is located. (b) "Clerk" means the Clerk of the Corporation of the County of Essex; (c) "Corporation" means the Corporation of the County of Essex; (d) "Fire Chief" means the Chief of the Fire Department of the Municipality in which the lodging house is located; (e) "Operator" means the person to whom a license is issued under this by-law; (f) "Lodging House" means a nursing home and any house or other building or portion thereof in which persons are harboured, received or lodged for hire, but does not include a hotel, hospital, nursing home, home for the young or the aged or institution if the hotel, hospital, home or institution is licensed, approved or supervised under any other general or special Act; (g) "Medical Officer of Health" means the Medical Officer of Health appointed to have jurisdiction in the County of Essex under the authority of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, and includes all inspectors appointed by him for the purposes of this by-law. (h) "Premises" means lands and structures or either of them. 2. No person shall carry on the operation of a lodging house within the County of Essex unless such person is the holder of a license issued under the authority of this by-law.