Section 410IAC7-24-315. Equipment, clothes washers, dryers, and storage cabinets

   (a) Except as specified in subsection (b), 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 may not be located as follows:

(1) In the following:

(A) Locker rooms.

(B) Toilet rooms.

(C) Garbage rooms.

(D) Mechanical rooms, when contamination is likely to occur.

(2) Under the following:

(A) Sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips.

(B) Leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has condensed.

(C) Open stairwells.

(D) Other sources of contamination.

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

  (c) If 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:

(1) exposed food;

(2) clean equipment, utensils, and linens; and

(3) unwrapped single-service and single-use articles.

  (d) For purposes of this section, a violation of subsection (a), (b), or (c) is a noncritical item. (Indiana State Department of Health; 410 IAC 7-24-315; filed Oct 13, 2004, 12:30 p.m.: 28 IR 884; readopted filed Jul 15, 2010, 12:12 p.m.: 20100728-IR-410100261RFA; readopted filed Nov 10, 2016, 8:45 a.m.: 20161207-IR-410160371RFA)