SECTION 748.3397. What are the requirements for bathing facilities?

(a) All bath and shower areas must provide for individual privacy. This includes doors or nonabsorbent shower curtains to individual bathtubs and showers stalls.

(b) You must provide:

(1) At least one bathtub or shower for every eight females and one for every eight males; and

(2) Separate shower and bath facilities for each gender, where applicable.

(c) When common-use shower facilities for each gender are located in the same building, the facilities must be:

(1) Distinctly marked for each gender; and

(2) Separated by a solid wall from the floor to ceiling.

(d) Each shower and bathtub must be equipped with:

(1) Hot and cold running water under sufficient pressure to meet the demands of the children; and

(2) Sufficient hot water to meet the demands of the children.

(e) If prior to January 1, 2007, we granted you a permit, then you do not have to comply with these requirements until:

(1) You move your operation to a new location;

(2) You structurally alter the current bathroom facilities; or

(3) Your permit is no longer valid.

Source Note: The provisions of this §748.3397 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