{ "id": 2959198, "name": "MELBOURNE CORPORATION, Appellee, v. CHICAGO HEARING BOARD FOR NURSING HOMES et al., Appellants", "name_abbreviation": "Melbourne Corp. v. Chicago Hearing Board for Nursing Homes", "decision_date": "1974-11-27", "docket_number": "No. 46297", "first_page": "409", "last_page": "415", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "59 Ill. 2d 409" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill.", "id": 8772, "name": "Illinois Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "401 Ill. 87", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5307480 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "92" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/401/0087-01" ] }, { "cite": "14 Ill. App. 3d 589", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 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In the administrative review proceeding the circuit court held that the Chicago Nursing Home Ordinance (Municipal Code of Chicago, ch. 136) was unconstitutional. In the ordinance violation case the circuit court held section 15 (ch. 136, sec. 15) of the ordinance invalid. The appellate court consolidated the appeals, affirmed the judgments (14 Ill. App. 3d 589), and we allowed the City\u2019s petition for leave to appeal.\nSection 15 of the Nursing Home Ordinance, at all times here relevant, provided as follows:\n\u201cNursing homes, sheltered care homes or homes for the aged shall comply with rules and regulations set forth by the board of health. In addition, the board of health may adopt and enforce rules and regulations relating to the operation and conduct of nursing homes, sheltered care homes or homes for the aged, and the care, treatment, rehabilitation, recreation, and maintenance of the residents thereof as it shall deem necessary.\u201d\nThe administrative review proceeding was brought by Melbourne Corporation (hereafter Melbourne) seeking to reverse the decision of the Chicago Hearing Board on Denial or Revocation of Licenses for Nursing Homes, Sheltered Care Homes, and Homes for the Aged (hereafter the Hearing Board), which on June 25, 1971, had denied Melbourne\u2019s application for renewal of its license to operate a nursing home located on Racine Avenue in Chicago. The circuit court concluded that that portion of the Hearing Board\u2019s order which found that Melbourne had violated certain of the rules and regulations of the Chicago Board of Health was not against the manifest weight of the evidence, but reversed the decision of the Hearing Board and ordered the issuance of the license on the ground that the ordinance was invalid for failure to comply with the provisions of section 15 of the \u201cNursing homes, sheltered care homes and homes for the aged act\u201d (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 111 1/2, par. 35.30), hereafter referred to as the Illinois Nursing Home Act.\nIn the second case the City charged Melbourne and two of its officers (the-defendants Slader) with numerous violations of section 15 of the Nursing Home Ordinance by reason of their failure to comply with certain rules and regulations promulgated by the Chicago Board of Health. The circuit court, holding that section 136 \u2014 15 was invalid and that any rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Health pursuant thereto were void, allowed defendants\u2019 motion to strike the complaint and dismissed the action.\nSection 15 of the Illinois Nursing Home Act, in pertinent part, provided:\n\u201cAny city, village or incorporated town may, by ordinance, provide for the licensing and regulation of nursing homes, sheltered care homes, and homes for the aged, or any classification of such homes, as defined herein, within such municipality, provided that the ordinance requires compliance with at least the minimum requirements established by the Department pursuant to Sections 4 and 11 of this Act.\u201d Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 111 1/2, par. 35.30.\nSection 4 of the Act (ch. 111 1/2, par. 35.19) provided that the Illinois Department of Health \u201cprescribe and publish minimum standards for \u2018nursing homes,\u2019 \u2018sheltered care homes,\u2019 and \u2018homes for the aged,\u2019 \u201d relating to the matters enumerated in the statute (i.e., location, construction, personnel). Section 11 of the Act (ch. 111 1/2, par. 35.26) authorized the Department of Health to adopt classifications of licenses \u201caccording to the level of service,\u201d and to adopt rules and regulations.\nThe City contends first that the circuit and appellate courts were without jurisdiction to decide whether its Nursing Home Ordinance was in compliance with the Illinois Nursing Home Act. Section 15 of the Act, immediately following the above-quoted portion provides that \u201cSuch compliance shall be determined by the Department subject to review as provided in Section 13 of this Act.\u201d Section 13 (ch. 111 1/2, par. 35.28) provides for administrative review of decisions of the Department. The City argues: \u201cThe determination of whether a municipal nursing home ordinance requires compliance with minimum state requirements is one to be made by the State Department of Health, not by the courts. Judicial review of that determination is available by administrative review, but that is not the situation in the case at bar.\u201d\nThe appellees argue that the statute did not empower the Department of Health to determine whether the ordinance was in compliance with the enabling legislation under which the ordinance was enacted.\nWe need not and do not decide under what circumstances this provision of section 15 of the Illinois Nursiing Home Act might apply. It suffices to say that these actions presented, respectively, an administrative review proceeding and a \u201cjusticiable matter\u201d over which section 9 of article VI of the Constitution of 1870 vested the circuit court with jurisdiction. Clearly under section 7 of article VI, the appellate court also had jurisdiction.\nIn the administrative review action the circuit court held that the Chicago Nursing Home Ordinance violated section 15 of the Illinois Nursing Home Act and was invalid for the reason that it failed to require compliance with at least the minimum requirements established by the Illinois Department of Health. The appellate court agreed. The City contends that \u201cits nursing home ordinance, as a whole, effectively requires compliance with the State minimum requirements, and does not contravene the statute.\u201d It argues that the Nursing Home Ordinance contains minimum standards applicable to building requirements, inspections and \u201cother licensing requirements.\u201d It argues further that these facts \u201cplus the persuasive fact that for years the State agency has approved the City\u2019s regulatory scheme of licensing nursing homes prove that the City has by ordinance provided for the licensing of such homes and has effectively required by law satisfactory compliance with minimum state standards.\u201d\nWe do not agree that the Nursing Home Ordinance required compliance with at least the minimum requirements established by the Illinois Department of Health. The ordinance contained provisions for \u201cQualifications for personnel\u201d (136 \u2014 3.1), \u201cMinimum Standards\u201d for construction, alteration and maintenance of buildings (136 \u2014 11), isolation rooms (136 \u2014 12), record keeping (136 \u2014 14), reports (136 \u2014 16), inspections (136 \u2014 17), and it required compliance with the rules and regulations of the Chicago Board of Health. The \u201cMinimum Standards Rules and Regulations Governing Nursing Homes\u201d promulgated by the Chicago Board of Health contained provisions which were different from those included in the \u201cMinimum Standards Rules and Regulations\u201d prescribed and published by the Illinois Department of Public Health in compliance with section 4 of the Nursing Home Act. The Chicago Board of Health failed to promulgate minimum standards concerning some matters which were included in the standards prescribed and published by the Illinois Department of Health.\nPrior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1970 it was axiomatic that \u201cMunicipal corporations are creatures of statute and have no inherent powers. In this State, a city organized under the Cities and Villages Act enjoys such powers only as are expressly delegated by the General Assembly or necessarily implied to render the grant of specific powers effective. [Citations.] Legislative powers of municipal corporations are strictly construed, and any rational doubt as to the existence of power must be resolved against the municipality.\u201d Higgins v. City of Galesburg, 401 Ill. 87, 92.\nWe hold that the ordinance did not meet the requirements of section 15 of the Illinois Nursing Home Act and the circuit and appellate courts did not err in holding it invalid.\nMuch of the appellate court opinion and substantial portions of the briefs of the parties are directed to the question whether the ordinance provided sufficient standards for the Chicago Board of Health in adopting rules and regulations. Because we hold the ordinance invalid for failure to comply with section 15 of the Illinois Nursing Home Act we do not reach this issue.\nThe judgment of the appellate court is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "MR. JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH" }, { "text": "MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER,\ndissenting:\nThe severely literal interpretation of the statute, which requires that a municipal ordinance incorporate literally or by reference the standards of the State Department of Public Health, is not a necessary interpretation. The State Department may well have interpreted the word \u201cordinance\u201d to include the regulations of the municipal board of health adopted pursuant to the ordinance, as well as the naked text of the ordinance. Indeed, it seems likely that the purpose of the General Assembly in committing the question of compliance with the minimum requirements of the State Department to that Department, rather than to the courts, was to avoid the kind of sterile interpretation adopted by the majority in this case.\nThe majority opinion avoids this key question by a cryptic reference to sections 7 and 9 of article VI of the Constitution of 1870. Neither of these sections justifies a disregard of the statute in this case. Section 9 gave the circuit court \u201cunlimited original jurisdiction of all justiciable matters, and such powers of review of administrative action as may be provided by law.\u201d In this case, the administrative action provided by law was the determination of the State Department of Public Health as to the compliance, or noncompliance, of the municipal ordinance. Th\u00e9re was no such determination. Section 7, dealing with the jurisdiction of the appellate court, has no bearing upon this case.\nUNDERWOOD, C.J., and DAVIS, J., join in this dissent.", "type": "dissent", "author": "MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER," } ], "attorneys": [ "Richard L. Curry, Corporation Counsel (Daniel Pas cale and William R. Quinlan, Assistants Corporation Counsel, and Gayle F. Haglund, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellants.", "Hoffman & Davis, of Chicago (Maurice L. Davis and Alvin L. Kruse, of counsel), for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "(No. 46297.\nMELBOURNE CORPORATION, Appellee, v. CHICAGO HEARING BOARD FOR NURSING HOMES et al., Appellants.\nOpinion filed November 27, 1974.\nSCHAEFER, J., UNDERWOOD, C.J., and DAVIS, J., dissenting.\nRichard L. Curry, Corporation Counsel (Daniel Pas cale and William R. Quinlan, Assistants Corporation Counsel, and Gayle F. Haglund, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellants.\nHoffman & Davis, of Chicago (Maurice L. Davis and Alvin L. Kruse, of counsel), for appellee." }, "file_name": "0409-01", "first_page_order": 419, "last_page_order": 425 }