Authority: IC 16-19-3-4

Affected: IC 16-41

Sec. 4. (a) All interior surfaces of a facility shall be easily cleanable, and of nontoxic durable construction.

(b) All light fixtures in a facility shall be shielded to protect the students from injury due to bulb breakage.

(c) Each facility shall have ventilation sufficient to provide adequate oxygen, a character of freshness in the air, and to remove exhaled air and undesirable odors during periods of student occupancy.

(d) Each facility shall be equipped with a heating system capable of maintaining a temperature of not less than sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit (68° F), in all student areas under the severest of weather conditions. Portable space heaters are prohibited.

(e) Pipes, ducts, and radiators containing steam or hot water and located in student areas shall be shielded to protect the students from injury.

(f) All electrical wiring accessible to students shall be protected to prevent accidental shock. All electrical receptacles and switches accessible to students shall be shielded to prevent accidental shock.

(g) All furniture and equipment accessible to students shall be durable and easily cleanable, with rounded corners and edges, and otherwise protected as necessary to ensure safety.

(h) Drinking water shall be provided on each floor of a facility that is accessible to students. Drinking water facilities shall have impervious, easily cleanable surfaces and shall be kept clean and in a good state of repair. Drinking fountains, where provided, shall have a sanitary type guarded angle-stream jet head and an adjustable flow regulator. The outlet shall not be below the flood rim of the fixture.

(i) Each facility shall be provided with restrooms and sanitary facilities. There shall be at least one (1) separate, readily accessible restroom for each sex including the following:

1. (1) Restrooms shall be equipped with lavatories or other satisfactory handwashing facilities or such equipment must be available in an adjacent room through which the students must pass upon egress from the restroom.
2. (2) Handwashing facilities shall be supplied with hot and cold water under pressure. Hot water provided for the handwashing facilities shall be maintained between one hundred five degrees Fahrenheit (105° F) and one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit (120° F). An adequate supply of soap, and individual sanitary towels in dispensers, or heating units for automatic hand drying shall be provided convenient to all handwashing facilities. Common towels are not acceptable. If individual sanitary towels are provided, a suitable container for used towels shall also be provided.
3. (3) Restroom toilet fixtures shall be of the water-flushed type. Multiple seat toilets or makeshift trough arrangements shall not be provided even though they may be equipped for water flushing. All water closets shall be partitioned as necessary to provide individual stalls. Partitions shall have impervious, smooth-surfaced, easily cleanable surfaces. Wood surfaces are not acceptable. An adequate supply of toilet paper shall be provided in a dispenser at each water closet.
4. (4) Covered disposal facilities shall be provided in restrooms available to junior high school age girls and above.
5. (5) Restroom floors shall have easily cleanable, nonporous surfaces. Restroom walls and ceilings shall have smooth nonabsorbent, easily cleanable surfaces.
6. (6) Restroom entrances shall be screened to prevent viewing the restroom interior from the exterior. Restroom exterior doors and operable windows shall be fly-proof and tight-fitting.

(Indiana Department of Health; 410 IAC 6-11-4; filed Jun 12, 1989, 9:45 a.m.: 12 IR 2046; readopted filed Jul 11, 2001, 2:23 p.m.: 24 IR 4234; readopted filed May 22, 2007, 1:44 p.m.: 20070613-IR-410070141RFA; readopted filed Sep 11, 2013, 3:19 p.m.: 20131009-IR-410130346RFA; readopted filed Nov 13, 2019, 3:14 p.m.: 20191211-IR-410190391RFA)