New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 6A - EDUCATION › Chapter 26 - EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES › Subchapter 8 - TEMPORARY SCHOOL FACILITIES › Section 6A:26-8.1 - Temporary facilities standards

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) This
				subchapter sets forth the standards that apply to temporary facilities, whether
				included as part of a school facilities project, funded as an other capital
				project, or provided by an approved private school for the disabled. It
				addresses the applicability of the facilities efficiency standards to temporary
				facilities, compliance monitoring by the county superintendent of schools,
				budgeting for deficiencies, and the construction and design standards for a
				variety of types of temporary facilities, such as leased buildings and
				pre-manufactured temporary classroom units. Any temporary facility to be used
				as a school shall comply with the applicable requirements of the UCC, evidenced
				by a valid certificate of occupancy for the use. If the building currently is
				not classified as Group E pursuant to the UCC, then it is to comply with the
				UCC requirements for a change of use at
				5:23-6.3 1. If the building is a
				school that predates the UCC, then it shall comply with the applicable
				requirements of the Uniform Fire Code.
(b) When considering educational adequacy,
				the Division and the executive county superintendent shall apply the
				minimum-square-feet standards permitted under the facilities efficiency
				standards. If a district board of education or approved private school for the
				disabled seeks relief from the minimum-square-feet requirements of the
				facilities efficiency standards, relief shall be determined upon application to
				the Division under the procedures for requesting an exception set forth in
				6A:26-6.2.
(c) Executive county superintendents shall
				annually monitor the temporary facilities of school districts and approved
				private schools for the disabled for compliance with the standards in this
				subchapter. District boards of education or approved private schools for the
				disabled shall provide funds in the next immediate annual budget to correct
				deficiencies about which they are notified by the executive county
				superintendent on or before October 1 annually. If the correction of the
				deficiencies is part of a school facilities project and eligible for the State
				share, State share shall be applied to meet this budgetary requirement. Failure
				to budget for the correction of deficiencies and to implement the corrections
				by the next September 1 following the October 1 notice shall result in the
				executive county superintendent, in consultation with the Division, ordering
				that the facility be abandoned immediately.
(d) In making a determination about an
				application for the use of temporary facilities, the following factors shall be
				taken into account:
1. Accommodations of
				students in temporary spaces in an existing public school, in other
				school-district-owned facilities or in rented or leased buildings not on a
				school-district-owned site shall comply with the following:
i. Safety factors:
(1) The floors, walls, and ceilings of rooms
				used for instruction shall be free of moisture, peeling paint, and potentially
				hazardous materials;
(2) The
				hardware on doors of any space occupied by students shall permit egress from
				the room at all times. Key-operated locks, thumb-turn locks, hasps or similar
				types of locking devices shall not be permitted;
(3) Instructional room doors opening into the
				corridor shall have vision panels;
(4) Directions for exiting from the building
				in case of emergency shall be posted in each space by the exit;
(5) Concrete floors in all instructional
				areas, except shops, shall be covered with a resilient floor
				covering;
(6) All educational
				spaces shall be equipped with a telephone connected to the main office and
				capable of emergency communication to local authorities. Such communication
				system may be in the form of a telephone system capable of placing 9-1-1 calls;
				and
(7) Provision shall be made for
				storage of students' clothing in other than a corridor or exitway.