1700. LOCATION - EQUIPMENT, CLOTHES WASHERS AND DRYERS, AND STORAGE CABINETS, CONTAMINATION PREVENTION

1700 LOCATION ─ EQUIPMENT, CLOTHES WASHERS AND DRYERS, AND STORAGE CABINETS, CONTAMINATION PREVENTION 1700.1 Except as specified in § 1700.2, equipment, a cabinet used for the storage of food, or a cabinet that is used to store cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, and single-service and single-use articles shall not be located: (a) In locker rooms; (b) In toilet rooms; (c) In garbage rooms; (d) In mechanical rooms; (e) Under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips; (f) Under leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has condensed; (g) Under open stairwells; or (h) Under other sources of contamination. 1700.2 A storage cabinet used for linens or single-service or single-use articles may be stored in a locker room. 1700.3 If a mechanical clothes washer or dryer is provided, it shall be located so that the washer or dryer is protected from contamination and only where there is no exposed food, clean equipment, clean utensils, clean linens, or unwrapped single service and single-use articles. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4394 (June 6, 2003); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).