Minn. R. agency 121, ch. 2920, PHYSICAL FACILITY, pt. 2920.6700
Single bedrooms must provide 70 square feet of usable floor space with a side dimension of not less than seven feet for ambulatory residents. For nonambulatory residents, the requirements are 100 square feet of usable floor area with a side dimension of not less than nine feet.
Multibed bedrooms must provide 60 square feet per person of usable floor space with three feet between beds placed side by side, and one foot between beds placed end to end for ambulatory residents. For nonambulatory/nonmobile residents, the multibed bedrooms must provide 80 square feet of usable floor area. Multibed bedrooms for active, nonambulatory, mobile residents must be at least 100 square feet per resident. Mobility space at the end and one side of each bed must not be less than four feet per resident.
Bedrooms for nonambulatory mobile residents shall have adequate accessible space for storage of wheel chairs and other prosthetic or adaptive equipment for daily out-of-bed activity or acceptable similar storage space shall be provided outside the bedroom readily and handily accessible to the resident.
Male and female residents may not occupy the same bedrooms.
An exception may be made when there is a parenting component of the program.
Adults and children may not share bedrooms. An exception may be made when there is a parenting component of the program or when the youth is a certified adult or an extended juvenile jurisdiction youth.
Minn. R. agency 121, ch. 2920, PHYSICAL FACILITY, pt. 2920.6700
Statutory Authority: MS s 241.021