Section 25-A1700. LOCATION - EQUIPMENT, CLOTHES WASHERS AND DRYERS, AND STORAGE CABINETS, CONTAMINATION PREVENTION

 

1700.1Except as specified in § 1700.2, equipment, a cabinet used for the storage of food, or a cabinet that is used to store cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, and single-service and single-use articles shall not be located:

 

(a)In locker rooms;

 

(b)In toilet rooms;

 

(c)In garbage rooms;

 

(d)In mechanical rooms;

 

(e)Under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips;

 

(f)Under leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads  or under lines on which water has condensed; 

 

(g)Under open stairwells; or

 

(h)Under other sources of contamination. 

 

1700.2A storage cabinet used for linens or single-service or single-use articles may be stored in a locker room. 

 

1700.3If a mechanical clothes washer or dryer is provided, it shall be located so that the washer or dryer is protected from contamination and only where there is no exposed food, clean equipment, clean utensils, clean linens, or unwrapped single service and single-use articles. 

 

authority

Sections 4 and 10 of An Act Relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat. 246: D.C. Official Code §§ 48-104 and 48-110 (2009 Repl.)); Section 7 of An Act Making Appropriations to provide for the expenses for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes (32 Stat.627: D.C. Official Code § 47-2834(a)(1), (a)(2), and (b) (2005 Repl.)); and Mayor’s Order 98-139, dated August 20, 1998, and Mayor’s Order 2002-103, dated June 18, 2002.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4394 (June 6, 2003), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 6184, 6276-77 (July 5, 2002); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).