California Code of Regulations › Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services › Division 1 - Department of Mental Health › Chapter 3.5 - Mental Health Rehabilitation Centers › Article 7 - Physical Plant › Section 787.18 - Lighting and Power System

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) All rooms,
				  attics, basements, passageways, and other spaces shall be provided with artificial
				  illumination, as set forth in Part 3, Title 24, California Code of
				  Regulations.
(b) All client rooms shall
				  have a minimum of 30 foot candles of light delivered to reading or working surfaces
				  and not less than 20 foot candles of light in the rest of the room.
(c) All accessible areas of corridors, storerooms,
				  stairways, ramps, exits and entrances shall have a minimum of 20 foot candles of
				  light.
(d) Auxiliary lighting and power
				  facilities shall be provided as required by Part 3, Title 24, California Code of
				  Regulations. Flashlights shall be in readiness for use at all times. Open-flame type
				  of light shall not be used.
(e) The
				  licensee shall provide and maintain an emergency electrical system in safe operating
				  condition and in compliance with subsections (d), (e) and (f). The system shall
				  serve all lighting, signals, alarms and equipment required to permit continued
				  operation of all necessary functions of the mental health rehabilitation center for
				  a minimum of six hours.
(f) If the
				  Department determines that an evaluation of the emergency electrical system of a
				  mental health rehabilitation center or portion thereof is necessary, the Department
				  may require the licensee to submit a report by a registered electrical engineer
				  which shall establish a bias for alteration of the system to provide reasonable
				  compliance with Part 3, Title 24, California Code of Regulations. Essential
				  engineering data, including load calculations, assumptions and tests, and, where
				  necessary, plans and specifications, acceptable to the Department, shall be
				  submitted in substantiation of the report. When corrective action is determined to
				  be necessary, the work shall be initiated and completed within an acceptable time
				  limit.
(g) The emergency lighting and
				  power system shall be maintained in operating condition to provide automatic
				  restoration of power for emergency circuits within ten seconds after normal power
				  failure.
(h) Emergency generators shall
				  be tested at least every 14 days under full load condition for a minimum of 30
				  minutes.
(i) A written record of
				  inspection, performance, exercising period, and repair of the emergency electrical
				  system shall be maintained on the premises and available for inspection by the
				  Department.
1. Renumbering
					 and amendment of former section
					 784.52 to new section
					 787.18 filed 8-21-97; operative 8-21-97
					 (Register 97, No. 34).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						5675
						and
						5768,
						Welfare and Institutions Code; Section
						3 of Chapter 678 of the Statutes of
						1994. Reference: Sections
						5675
						and
						5768,
						Welfare and Institutions Code.