HAR §11-50-48. Location and installation

(a) clothes washers and dryers, and storage cabinets, contamination prevention. Equipment, (1) Except as specified in paragraph (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 may 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 condens~d; (G) Under open stairwells; or (H) Under other sources of contamination; (2) A storage cabinet used for linens or single- service or single-use articles may be stored in a locker room; 50-127 §11-50-48 (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, utensils, and linens; and unwrapped single- service and single-use articles. (b) Fixed equipment, spacing or sealing. (1) Equipment that is fixed because it is not easily movable shall be installed so that it is: (A) Spaced to allow access for cleaning along the sides, behind, and above the equipment; (B) Spaced from adjoining equipment, walls, and ceilings a distance of not more than one millimeter or one thirty-second inch; or (C) Sealed to adjoining equipment or walls, if the equipment is exposed to spillage or seepage; (2) Counter-mounted equipment that is not easily movable shall be installed to allow cleaning of the equipment and areas underneath and around the equipment by being: (A) Sealed; or (B) Elevated on legs as specified in subsection (c) ( 4). (c) Fixed equipment, elevation or sealing. (1) Except as specified in paragraphs (2) and (3), floor-mounted equipment that is not easily movable shall be sealed to the floor or elevated on legs that provide at least a six inch clearance between the floor and the equipment; (2) If no part of the floor under the floor-mounted equipment is more than six inches from the point of cleaning access, the clearance space may be only four inches; (3) This section does not apply to display shelving units, display refrigeration units, and display freezer units located in the consumer shopping areas of a retail food store, if the floor under the units is maintained clean; (4) Except as specified in paragraph (5), counter- mounted equipment that is not easily movable shall be elevated on legs that provide at least a four inch clearance between the table and the equipment; (5) The clearance space between the table and counter-mounted equipment may be: 50-128 §11-50-49 (A) Three inches if the horizontal distance of the table top under the equipment is no more than twenty inches from the point of access for cleaning; or (B) Two inches if the horizontal distance of the table top under the equipment is no more than three inches from the point of access for cleaning. [Eff 2/24/2014; am and comp AUG 2 4 2025 ] (Auth: HRS §321-11) (Imp: HRS §321-11)