Minimum requirements for facility

1. The provider shall ensure that the group child care is properly lighted. If the lighting of the group child care appears questionable, the department may require the provider to obtain additional lights. 2. The provider shall ensure that safe and comfortable arrangements for naps for enrolled children are provided. a. The provider may allow a child to sleep or rest on the floor only when the floor is carpeted or padded, warm, free from drafts, and when each child has an individual blanket or sleeping mat. b. The provider shall ensure that there is a room available, separate from the nap room, where an individual child can go for supervised play if the child is unable to nap, so as not to disrupt the other children's rest. 3. Water supply: a. The provider shall ensure that the group child care has a drinking supply from a community water system or from a source tested and approved annually by the department of environmental quality. b. The group child care must have hot and cold running water. The water in the faucets used by children must not exceed one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit [49.2 degrees Celsius]. 4. Toilet and sink facilities: a. The provider shall provide toilet and sink facilities which are easily accessible to the areas used by the children and staff. b. Toilets must be located in rooms separate from those used for cooking, eating, and sleeping. A minimum of one flush toilet must be provided for each fifteen children, excluding those children who are not toilet trained. c. The provider shall provide child-sized toilet adapters, training chairs, or potty chairs for use by children who require them. Training chairs must be emptied promptly and thoroughly cleaned and sanitized after each use. d. The provider shall provide at least one handwashing sink per toilet room facility or diapering area. The provider shall provide sanitary hand-drying equipment, single-use or individually designated cloth towels, or paper towels near handwashing sinks. e. The provider shall provide safe step stools to allow standard-size toilets and sinks to be used by the children or the provider shall ensure the availability of child-size toilets and sinks. 5. The provider of a group child care not on a municipal or public water supply or wastewater disposal system shall ensure the group child care's sewage and wastewater system has been approved by the department of environmental quality.