Section 33-03-30-06 - Physical plant Buildings housing facilities for children with autism shall:
1. Provide a design making: a. The residential care facility for children with autism for the ambulatory developmentally disabled accessible to nonambulatory visitors and employees, with at least one bathroom accessible to and usable by such visitors and employees. When the facility houses only ambulatory persons, the department may waive this requirement and the balance of the handicapped standards in North Dakota Century Code section 48-02-19. The waiver may be granted when only ambulatory developmentally disabled persons are served. b. The residential care facility for children with autism for the mobile nonambulatory, nonambulatory, and nonmobile developmentally disabled comply with North Dakota Century Code section 48-02-19. 2. Be constructed to accommodate no more than fifteen eligible residents. 3. Be limited in size to a maximum of three hundred fifty square feet [32.52 square meters] per resident for the first eight residents, inclusive of space for employees. Facilities of more than eight resident beds must be limited to one hundred seventy-five square feet [16.26 square meters] per additional resident bed. 4. Provide space for dining, kitchen, family living, and recreation including outdoor play area, utility, and bedrooms as an integral part of a single structure. 5. Meet these sleeping area standards: a. Require no more than two residents to share a bedroom other than on a temporary basis not to exceed ten days. b. Provide no less than one hundred square feet [9.29 square meters] of floor area exclusive of bathroom and closet space for single occupancy bedrooms. c. Provide no less than eighty square feet [7.43 square meters] per bed of floor space exclusive of closet and bathroom space in double occupancy bedrooms. d. Locate bedrooms on an outside wall and separate them from other rooms and spaces by walls extending from floor to ceiling. e. Locate bedrooms at or above grade level to provide sufficient window space to accommodate adequate lighting. 6. Provide at least one full bathroom for every four residents. 7. Be designed to accommodate the resident's privacy, with bedrooms and bathrooms arranged to provide separation of male and female residents. 8. Provide sufficient space in the kitchen to permit the participation of residents as well as staff in food preparation. Provide appropriate space and equipment, including two-compartment sink, to adequately serve the food preparation and storage requirements of the facility. 9. Provide sufficient laundry space to include, in addition to a washer and dryer, storage for laundry supplies, accommodation for ironing, and counterspace for folding clothing and linens. 10. Provide sufficient areas appropriate for group and individual classroom activities, recreational and leisure activities, special therapy, and family visiting activities. 11. Provide staff accommodations including space to accommodate employees, limited to living room, efficiency kitchen, one full bathroom, and a double occupancy bedroom, when as a condition of employment they must live onsite or a multipurpose space usable for sleeping for employees serving in shifts. Staff accommodations other than bedroom space, for employees required to live onsite may be utilized jointly by staff and residents. 12. Provide sufficient storage, in addition to closet space, to accommodate the storage of out-of-season clothing, outdoor furniture, garden tools, lawnmower, and other equipment as needed. 13. Provide a tempering valve, located to preclude resident access, to control the temperature of hot water supplied to lavatories and bathing facilities. The tempering valve must permit control of temperature in the range of one hundred ten degrees Fahrenheit [47.22 degrees Celsius] to one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit [60 degrees Celsius]. Hot water supplied to clothes washers and dishwashers must be one hundred thirty-five to one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit [57.22 to 60 degrees Celsius]. 14. Be equipped with emergency lighting capable of sustained battery operation. 15. Provide for maintenance of building and equipment including: a. The interior and exterior of the building must be clean, orderly, and in good repair. b. All essential mechanical and electrical equipment must be maintained in a safe operating condition. c. Resident care equipment must be clean and maintained in a safe operating condition. d. There must be limitation of sound at comfort levels. e. Provision must be made for adequate and comfortable lighting levels in all areas. f. All resident areas must be clean, sanitary, and free from odors. g. A comfortable room temperature must be maintained. N.D. Admin Code 33-03-30-06
Effective February 1, 1992.General Authority: NDCC 23-09.4-02, 23-09.4-07
Law Implemented: NDCC 23-01-03, 23-09.4-02