Facilities and institutions covered under West Virginia's General Sanitation Rule 64CSR18 are:
- Institutions: Colleges, Universities, Correctional Facilities, Jails, Prisons, Detention Centers
- Schools: Primary and Secondary (K-12)
- Care Facilities: Group Homes, Emergency Shelters, Work Release Centers, Adult Day Care Centers
- Lodging Facilities: Hotel/Motels, Bed & Breakfast Inns, Labor Camps, Tourist Cabins
- Recreation Facilities: Campgrounds, Organized Camps, Mass Gatherings, Parks, Playgrounds, Fairs and Festivals
- Public Restrooms
The General Sanitation Rule establishes the minimum public sanitation requirements for these facilities.
A permit to operate must be issued by the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department.
Inspections
Kanawha-Charleston Health Department inspects all permitted establishments in each program once per year.
Exceptions:
- Schools are inspected once every two years.
- Colleges, universities and public restrooms which are not part of a facility governed by this rule are inspected on a complaint basis only.
Institutions
Institution - A public or private facility established by an organized or corporation for the purpose of providing higher education, care, training, rehabilitation or other similar
services or functions.
Schools
School – A public or private organization that provides instruction for the teaching of children. The term includes early childhood / primary education centers, middle childhood / junior high education centers, adolescent / high school education centers and vocational education centers. The term does not include childcare centers as defined in the bureau for public health rule, Child Care Centers, 64CSR21. Schools include public or private correctional facilities, colleges and universities, and primary and secondary educational facilities (pre-K through Grade 12).
Lodging Facilities
- Hotel – Every building where food and lodging are furnished to guests and payment is required.
- Motel – Every building constructed, designed, maintained, offered, or used to furnish lodging to automobile transient guests or the traveling public. The term motel includes auto courts, motor courts, auto lodges, motor lodges, tourist cabins, tourist cottages and tourist courts and bed and breakfast inn.
- Labor Camp – A labor camp includes any lumber, mining, agricultural, construction, or other industrial camp where ten or more persons are employed and housed in temporary quarters, such as cars, motor homes, camper vehicles, wagons, tents, cabins, buildings, or other similar enclosures.
Recreational Facilities
- Organized Camp – Any area, place, parcel or tract of land on which facilities are established or maintained to provide an outdoor group living experience for children or adults, or where one or more permanent or semi-permanent structures are established or maintained as living or sleeping quarters for children or adults, and operated for educational, social, recreational, religious instruction or activity, physical education or health, or vacation purposes either gratuitously or for compensation. This definition shall not be construed to include hunting, fishing, or other camp privately owned and used exclusively for the personal pleasure of the owner.
- Campground – A tract of land established, maintained and offered to the public for payment for the location or placement of two or more camping units..
- Camping Unit – Any tent, camping vehicle, cabin, or similar vehicle or structure designed or intended to be used for camping purposes.
- Campsite – Any plot of land within a campground used or intended to be used for the location or placement of a camping unit.
- Mass Gathering – Any group of 250 or more persons assembled together for a meeting, festival, social gathering, concert, or other similar purpose. The term shall not includeassembly in any permanent building or permanent structures designed , equipped and intended for use by large numbers of people. For the purposes of this subsection, "equipped" means supplied with adequate sanitary facilities for the intended use.
Public Restrooms
- Public Restrooms – A structure housing toilet, lavatory, or other such facilities intended for the unrestricted use by the public.