Multipurpose senior centers requirements:

1. (1) A center must comply with all applicable state and local health, fire, safety, building, zoning, and sanitation laws, ordinances, or codes;
2. (2) A center must install, in consultation with state or local fire authorities, an adequate number of smoke detectors in the senior center;
3. (3) A center must have a plan for ensuring the safety of older persons in a natural disaster or other safety threatening situation;
4. (4) A center must comply with regulations relating to minimum standards of construction, particularly with the requirements of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 5151 et seq., on plans and specifications for an award for acquiring, altering, renovating, or constructing a multipurpose senior center facility;
5. (5) A center must comply with the requirements of the Davis­Bacon Act, 40 U.S.C. § 3141 et seq., and other mandatory federal labor standards for alterations, renovations, or construction of a facility to be used as a multipurpose senior center;

6. (6) A center must meet the following length of use requirements:

   1. (A) A facility acquired to be used as a multipurpose senior center must be used for that purpose for at least ten (10) years from the date of acquisition;
   2. (B) A facility constructed to be used as a multipurpose senior center must be used for that purpose for at least twenty (20) years after completion of construction; and
   3. (C) A facility which is altered or renovated using Older Americans Act Title III funds must be used for the purpose for which the alteration and/or renovation was completed for at least five (5) years; and
7. (7) A center must not be used and may not be intended to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place of religious worship.