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Title 465 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SERVICESArticle 2 - CHILD WELFARE SERVICES
Rule 465 IAC 2-12 - Children's Homes and Child Caring Institutions Defined as Group Homes
Section 465 IAC 2-12-79 - SBH requirements; water supply and water treatment

465 Ind. Admin. Code 2-12-79

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Section 465 IAC 2-12-79 - SBH requirements; water supply and water treatment

Authority: IC 12-13-5-3

Affected: IC 12-17.4

Sec. 79.

(a) An adequate water supply of a safe, sanitary quality shall be obtained from a water source or system approved by the SBH.
(b) Connection to a public water supply is required when available within a reasonable distance, not to exceed three hundred (300) feet.
(c) If a private well is used, water shall be potable and of adequate quantity. The well shall meet the construction standards under 410 IAC 6-10 and shall be approved by the SBH.
(d) The construction of a new water well or major alterations to an existing well shall be approved by the SBH.
(e) Drinking water shall be available to the children at all times.
(f) If drinking fountains are provided, they shall be of the sanitary type with guarded angular stream drinking fountain heads and shall be so constructed and located as to be accessible for use by the children at all times but shall not be located in a bathroom.
(g) If drinking fountains are not provided, individual single service cups shall be provided in a sanitary dispenser and used only once.
(h) All plumbing fixtures shall discharge into a public sanitary sewer whenever available within a reasonable distance, not to exceed three hundred (300) feet, or whenever soil conditions prohibit the construction of an adequate on-site system.
(i) Where a municipal sewage treatment system is not available and a private system is used, the sewage treatment system shall meet the requirements of 410 IAC 6-8.1 and shall be approved by the SBH.
(j) New plumbing equipment shall meet the requirements of the SBH and shall be approved by that agency.

465 IAC 2-12-79

Department of Child Services; 465 IAC 2-12-79; filed Jun 27, 1991, 12:00 p.m.: 14 IR 2043; readopted filed Jul 12, 2001, 1:40 p.m.: 24 IR 4235; readopted filed Nov 27, 2007, 6:52 a.m.: 20071226-IR-465070551RFA; readopted filed November 26, 2013, 4:02 p.m.: 20131225-IR-465130459RFA
Readopted filed 10/10/2019, 10:42 a.m.: 20191106-IR-465190320RFA

Transferred from the Division of Family Resources ( 470 IAC 3-14-79) to the Department of Child Services ( 465 IAC 2-12-79) by P.L. 234-2005, SECTION 195, effective July 1, 2005.