This week, the police fined the village more than $6,000, a heavy sum for such a village, for permitting the unapproved gathering and the unlicensed group home.
Barbara Kautz, an attorney specializing in land-use law who was hired by Burbank in 2014 to clarify the city's housing definitions, told residents that, in most cases, the city must treat licensed and unlicensed group homes the same way it treats single-family homes.
She likened the laws prohibiting foreign financing to unlicensed rights groups to the rules in other countries, like the United States, that bar foreign contributions to political parties.
The 16 Americans and 27 others face criminal charges of working for unlicensed nonprofit groups and accepting foreign money to operate them.
But as a matter of law, Mr. Becker and 42 others are accused of accepting unauthorized foreign financing for unlicensed nonprofit groups.
Any unlicensed security groups — the exact number is unknown, but there are many — would be subject to having their equipment confiscated.
Prosecutors read out the charges, accusing the defendants of undermining Egyptian sovereignty by opening unlicensed nonprofit groups, relying on unauthorized foreign financing, sending reports back to foreign countries and training political parties.
If convicted, the accused face a fine and up to six years in prison for working for unlicensed nonprofit groups, and a minimum of six years for receiving money from abroad.
The investigating judges said that if convicted of participating in the foreign financing of unlicensed nonprofit groups, the suspects could face jail sentences of as much as five years.
The ERS global quality scales were difficult to use in some of the centers in the unlicensed registered ministry groups, because the children didn't remain in their classrooms, where the scales are designed to be used.
