SECTION 748.3359. What rooms may I not use as bedrooms?

You may not use the following as bedrooms:

(1) Rooms commonly used for other purposes, such as dining rooms, living rooms, hallways, porches or dens, except for a child temporarily requiring close supervision or a child who is admitted to your operation during sleeping hours (for the first night only). These exceptions are permitted only if the child is provided with comfortable sleeping arrangements and if supervision of the child is not compromised;

(2) Rooms that are passageways to other rooms; or

(3) Basements; however, if prior to January 1, 2007, we granted you a permit, then basements may be used as bedrooms as long as other relevant requirements are met, and until:

(A) You move your operation to a new building;

(B) You structurally alter the current building by adding a new room; or

(C) Your permit is no longer valid.

Source Note: The provisions of this §748.3359 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7377; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909