§ 46.651. Location of equipment, clothes washers and dryers and storage cabinets to prevent contamination.

 (a)  Prohibited locations. Except as specified in subsection (b), equipment, a cabinet used for the storage of food, or a cabinet that is used to store cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens and single-service and single-use articles may not be located in the following:

   (1)  Locker rooms.

   (2)  Toilet rooms.

   (3)  Garbage rooms.

   (4)  Mechanical rooms.

   (5)  Under sewer lines that are not shielded to intercept potential drips.

   (6)  Under leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has condensed.

   (7)  Under open stairwells.

   (8)  Under other sources of contamination.

 (b)  Exception. A storage cabinet used for linens or single-service or single-use articles may be stored in a locker room.

 (c)  Mechanical clothes washer or dryer. If a mechanical clothes washer or dryer is provided, it shall be located so that the washer or dryer is protected from contamination and only where there is no exposed food; clean equipment, utensils and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles.