New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 7 - TEMPORARY RESIDENCES, MASS GATHERINGS AND CHILDREN'S CAMPS › Subpart 7-2 - CHILDREN'S CAMPS › Section 7-2.12 - Building construction

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
Notice of construction, modification or conversion required.
No person shall modify, develop or convert a property for
					 use as a children's camp without first notifying the permit-issuing official at
					 least 60 days before construction commences. The notices shall give the name
					 and location of the property, a brief description of the facilities to be
					 provided and the name, telephone number and mailing address of the person
					 giving notice. The notice shall be supplemented by additional information,
					 including plans or sketches as requested by the permit-issuing official.
					 Construction shall not start prior to the required approval of the plans or
					 sketches by the permit-issuing official and other appropriate regulatory
					 official.
(b)
Requirement for new construction.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph
				  (2) of this subdivision, all new construction, including alterations,
				  enlargements and improvements, shall be in accordance with the Uniform Code,
				  and the provisions of the State Environmental Quality Review Act. The building
				  permit and certificate of occupancy as issued by the local code enforcement
				  official should be readily available for review and submission to the
				  permit-issuing official. A written statement signed by a registered architect
				  or professional engineer certifying construction compliance with the Uniform
				  Code shall be submitted to the permit-issuing official prior to occupancy of
				  all new construction. For a summer camp cabin (as that term is defined in
				  paragraph [3] of this subdivision), the written certification of compliance to
				  be submitted to the permit-issuing official shall certify compliance with all
				  applicable Uniform Code requirements other than the automatic sprinkler system
				  requirements specified in subparagraph (2)(i) of this subdivision.
(2) A summer camp cabin (as that term is
				  defined in paragraph [3] of this subdivision) shall be exempt from the
				  following Uniform Code requirements:
(i) the
				  automatic sprinkler system requirements; and
(ii) the minimum floor area per occupant
				  requirements.
(3) For
				  the purposes of this subdivision, the term
summer camp cabin
shall mean a sleeping quarter which:
(i) is
				  located in a children's overnight camp;
(ii) has a sleeping capacity of fewer than 25
				  occupants with a total combined sleeping room floor area of 1,200 square feet
				  or less for all sleeping rooms;
(iii) is one story;
(iv) is used and occupied only between June
				  1st and September 14th;
(v) has no
				  cooking facilities, no heating systems, and no solid fuel heating or burning
				  systems;
(vi) has only sleeping
				  rooms (including the necessary area for storing occupant belongings) and
				  bathrooms;
(vii) has no interior
				  corridors or separate common area rooms;
(viii) has at least two exits per sleeping
				  room which are remote from each other and which discharge directly to the
				  building's exterior;
(ix) has exit
				  doors that open in the direction of, and are non-locking against egress;
				  and
(x) has smoke alarms in each
				  sleeping room that are interconnected such that the activation of one alarm
				  will activate all of the alarms in the cabin.
An existing structure that is altered, enlarged or
					 otherwise improved shall not be deemed to be a summer camp cabin (and shall not
					 be subject to the exceptions set forth in paragraph [2] of this subdivision)
					 unless such structure, as so altered, enlarged or otherwise improved, satisfies
					 all of the criteria set forth in this paragraph.