N.J. Admin. Code § 5:15-1.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 5:15-1.2 - Scope and purpose

(a) These rules are promulgated for the purpose of establishing standards to ensure that every emergency shelter in the State of New Jersey is constructed, maintained, and operated in such a manner as will protect the health, safety, and welfare of its occupants.

(b) These rules shall not apply to institutions or facilities subject to the inspection and licensing of the State Department of Human Services, the Department of Corrections, or the Department of Children and Families, or to facilities subject to the supervision of the Department of Health pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:1-1 et seq. of the Public Health Law.

(c) Any person, partnership, corporation, organization, county, municipality or other entity, which operates a shelter is subject to the requirements of these rules.

(d) The provisions of these rules apply to any facility providing shelter and services to homeless adults or families and:

1. Is not a hotel or motel facility, a rooming house or a facility which provides shelter substantially similar to a house or an apartment and which includes individual private cooking areas and private bathrooms, except if the hotel, motel or rooming house space is used by a social services agency, and the space is used under a contract or lease with the hotel, motel or rooming house (including hotels and motels owned or leased by not-for-profit or charitable organizations), in which case these rules shall apply.

2. Is not a boarding home whose owner is licensed pursuant to N.J.S.A. 55:13B-1 et seq.

N.J. Admin. Code § 5:15-1.2

Amended by 49 N.J.R. 3817(b), effective 12/18/2017