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 787.10 - Alterations to Existing Buildings or New Construction

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Alterations
				  to existing buildings or new construction shall be in conformance with the
				  California Building Standards Code, Title 24, California Code of Regulations and
				  requirements of the State Fire Marshal.
(b) Mental health rehabilitation centers licensed
				  and in operation prior to the effective date of changes to applicable law or
				  regulations shall not be required to institute corrective alterations or
				  construction in order to comply with such new requirements. Any mental health
				  rehabilitation center for which preliminary or working drawings and specifications
				  have been approved by the Department prior to the effective date of changes to
				  construction regulations shall not be required to comply with such new requirements
				  provided substantial actual construction is commenced within one year of the
				  effective date of such new requirements.
(c) All mental health rehabilitation centers shall
				  maintain in operating condition all buildings, fixtures and spaces in the numbers
				  and types as specified in the construction requirements under which the facility or
				  unit was first licensed.
1. New section
					 filed 8-21-95 as an emergency; operative 8-21-95 (Register 95, No. 34). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-17-95 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2.
					 New section refiled 2-9-96 as an emergency; operative 2-9-96 (Register 96, No. 6). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 6-8-96 or emergency language
					 will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. New section
					 refiled 6-10-96 as an emergency; operative 6-10-96 (Register 96, No. 24). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-8-96 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4.
					 New section refiled 10-8-96 as an emergency; operative 10-8-96 (Register 96, No.
					 41). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-5-97 or emergency
					 language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
5.
					 Certificate of Compliance as to 10-8-96 order transmitted to OAL 2-5-97; disapproved
					 by OAL and order of repeal as to 10-8-96 order filed on 3-21-97 (Register 97, No.
					 12).
6. New section filed 3-21-97 as an emergency; operative 3-21-97
					 (Register 97, No. 12). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by
					 7-21-97 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
					 day.
7. Certificate of Compliance as to 3-21-97 order, including
					 renumbering of former section
					 787.10 to new section
					 788.10, and renumbering and amendment of
					 former section 784.36 to new section
					 787.10, transmitted to OAL 7-21-97 and
					 filed 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.