Physical plant

Buildings housing a residential facility for the physically disabled shall: 1. 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 three hundred fifty square feet [32.52 square meters] per resident, inclusive of space for two employees of the applicant. Facilities of more than eight resident beds shall be limited to one hundred seventy-five square feet [16.26 square meters] per additional resident bed. 4. Be of modest design minimizing the length of hallways, the number of exterior corners, and complexity of construction. 5. Include provisions for its conversion to an alternate use at a reasonable cost. 6. Provide space for dining, kitchen, family living and recreation, utility, and bedrooms as an integral part of a single structure. 7. Provide these sleeping area standards: a. Require no more than two residents to share a bedroom other than on a temporary basis. 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 the 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. 8. Provide at least one full bathroom for every four residents. 9. Be designed to accommodate the resident's privacy with bedrooms and bathrooms arranged to provide separation of male and female residents. 10. 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 a two-compartment sink, to adequately serve the food preparation and storage requirements of the facility. 11. Provide sufficient laundry space to include, in addition to a washer and a dryer, storage for laundry supplies, accommodation for ironing, and counterspace for folding clothing and linens. 12. Provide these staff accommodations: a. Space to accommodate employees, limited to a living room, efficiency kitchen, one full bathroom, and a double occupancy bedroom, when, as a condition of employment, they must live onsite; or b. A multipurpose space usable for sleeping for employees serving in shifts. 13. 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. 14. 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 shall permit control of temperature in the range of one hundred ten degrees Fahrenheit [47.22 degrees Celsius] to one hundred thirty-five to one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit [57.22 to 60 degrees Celsius]. Hot water supplied to clotheswashers and dishwashers shall be one hundred thirty-five to one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit [57.22 to 60 degrees Celsius]. 15. Be equipped with emergency lighting capable of sustained battery operation, or onsite emergency electrical generation.