This regulation establishes lighting and ventilation requirements for Mental Health Community Residence Facilities (MHCRFs) in the District of Columbia. Operators must ensure adequate lighting in all rooms, nightlights in bathrooms and hallways (with nightlights offered to residents in sleeping rooms), lighted outside entrances, and compliance with D.C. Property Maintenance Code and Housing Code standards for habitable spaces. All occupiable spaces must also have adequate natural or mechanical ventilation per the D.C. Property Maintenance Code.
View official source3828 LIGHTING AND VENTILATION 3828.1 Each room in a MHCRF shall have adequate lighting, and each bedroom shall have sufficient light for reading. 3828.2 Each bathroom and hallway shall contain a nightlight, and nightlights shall be offered to residents for use in their sleeping rooms. 3828.3 Each outside entrance shall be lighted. 3828.4 All habitable rooms used for living or sleeping, including the kitchen, and all bathrooms, hallways, and stairways shall meet the lighting requirements of § 402 of the D.C. Property Maintenance Code and §§ 502 through 505 of the D.C. Housing Code (14 DCMR §§ 502 – 505), except where the D.C. Housing Code requirements are superseded by the D.C. Property Maintenance Code. 3828.5 Every space intended for human occupancy shall be provided with adequate natural or mechanical ventilation as required by § 403 of the Property Maintenance Code. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 65 DCR 1633 (February 16, 2018). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Mental Health 22-A DCMR § 3828