New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Chapter XIV - Office for People With Developmental Disabilities › Part 635 - General Quality Control and Administrative Requirements Applicable to Programs, services or Facilities Funded or Certified by the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities › Subpart 635-7 - Environmental Requirements › Section 635-7.2 - Life Safety Code requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				  For purposes of obtaining an operating certificate, the following Life Safety
				  Code requirements must be met by the herein specified facility class in
				  addition to the various building code provisions set forth in section
				  635-7.1 
				  of this Subpart.
(1) Residential facilities.
(i) Intermediate care facility for persons
				  with developmental disabilities (ICF/DD): chapter 32 (new) or 33 (existing),
				  Residential Board and Care Occupancies, of the National Fire Protection
				  Association (NFPA) 101 Life Safety Code, 2000 edition, or chapter 18 (new) or
				  19 (existing) Health Care Occupancies of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 2000
				  edition.
(ii) Supervised community
				  residence initially certified or granted certification of need and approval for
				  construction subsequent to September 1, 1985 and individualized residential
				  alternatives (IRAs) housing nine or more persons: chapter 32 (new) or 33
				  (existing), Residential Board and Care Occupancies, of the NFPA 101 Life Safety
				  Code, 2000 edition, or chapter 18 (new) or 19 (existing) Health Care
				  Occupancies of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 2000 edition.
(iii) Supervised individualized residential
				  alternatives (IRAs) for eight or fewer people in which the occupants cannot be
				  evacuated in three minutes or less: chapter 33 (existing), Residential Board
				  and Care Occupancies, of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 2000 edition, or
				  chapter 19 (existing) Health Care Occupancies of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code,
				  2000 edition. This requirement applies to both new and existing IRAs.
(iv) Private school (including an integrated
				  residential community):
(a) A facility serving
				  15 or fewer persons with the ability to evacuate said facility in less than 2.5
				  minutes. Chapter 11, Residential Occupancies, of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code,
				  1973 edition.
(b) A facility
				  serving more than 15 persons or where one or more persons are unable to
				  evacuate said facility in less than 2.5 minutes. Chapter 10, Institutional
				  Occupancies, of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 1973 edition.
(c) Any private school residential facility
				  or residential building constructed after April 1, 2008. Chapter 32 (new),
				  Residential Board and Care Occupancies, of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 2000
				  edition.
(v) Specialty
				  hospital. Chapter 18 (new) or 19 (existing) Health Care Occupancies, of the
				  NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 2000 edition.
(vi) Developmental center. Chapter 32 (new)
				  or 33 (existing), Residential Board and Care Occupancies, of the NFPA 101 Life
				  Safety Code, 2000 edition, or chapter 18 (new) or 19 (existing) Health Care
				  Occupancies, of the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, 2000 edition.