Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Human Services
Title R501 - Human Services Program Licensing
Rule R501-22 - Residential Support Programs
Section R501-22-5 - Physical Facility
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each licensee shall have at least one bathroom for every ten clients.
(2) Each domestic violence shelter and emergency homeless shelter licensee may allow family members to share a bathroom. Where a bathroom is shared by more than one family or by children over the age of eight, either the child's parent or program staff shall ensure that client privacy is maintained.
(3) Each emergency homeless shelter may exceed the bathroom ratio set forth in Subsection R501-22-5(1) if:
(4) The licensee shall develop safe practices to identify how to manage emergency overflow when capacity has been reached during dangerous weather conditions.
(5) The licensee shall develop safe practices that allow and encourage each client to have clean linen at least weekly.
(6) The emergency homeless licensee may have portable beds, cots, or mats to accommodate fluctuating client volume.
(7) Except as outlined in Subsection R501-22-5(13), the licensee shall provide clean bedding that is laundered at least weekly or as needed for each client.
(8) A family may share bedroom space.
(9) The licensee shall comply with the following bedroom standards for domestic violence shelters, family support centers, temporary homeless youth shelters, emergency homeless family shelters, and children's shelters:
(10) The temporary youth shelter licensee shall ensure that children in a temporary youth shelter with their own children have at least 40 square feet per person, excluding storage space, in a separately enclosed bedroom that houses only children that have their own children.
(11) The licensee shall comply with the following bedroom standards for emergency homeless shelters, temporary homeless youth shelters, and receiving centers:
(12) Each licensee shall outline safe practices regarding:
(14) Each licensee that requires a client to provide the client's own laundry supplies and locate a laundromat for laundering shall have a safe practice to assist each client on a limited basis when the client cannot provide the client's laundry supplies and locate a laundromat.