1. A bathroom in a group home facility must: a. Be located in places that facilitate maximum self-care by eligible individuals. b. Provide showers, bathtubs, toilets, and lavatories approximating normal patterns found in homes, unless specifically contraindicated by program needs. c. Support only up to four individuals each. d. Have hot water supplied to lavatories and bathing facilities in the range of one hundred ten to one hundred forty degrees Fahrenheit [47.22 to 60 degrees Celsius], as controlled by a tempering valve, located to preclude eligible individual access.

2. At least one bathroom per group home facility must be accessible and usable by nonambulatory eligible individuals, visitors, and employees.

History: Effective June 1, 1986; amended effective December 1, 1995; January 1, 2025.

Law Implemented: NDCC 25-16-03