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Temporary Residences When you stay at a hotel or motel in Clinton County, the Clinton County Health Department strives to ensure your and your loved ones’ safety in a number of areas. The term temporary residences include the following types of facilities: hotels, motels, bungalow colonies, groups of cabins, mass gathering, and campgrounds. The Clinton County Health Department works with the facility owner(s) and the facility manager and Local Building Code Officer(s) or Building Inspector to insure the facility is constructed to the Building and Fire Codes at the time the facility was built, has an approved Fire Safety and Employee Emergency Plan and verifying fire safety equipment is operating. If the facility has a food service or swimming pool or spa, the Clinton County Health Department verifies that these operations are operated in accordance to applicable New York State Sanitary Code. |
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What is the Purpose of the Code? The purpose of the New York State Subpart 7-1 Temporary Residence code is to reduce fatalities and injuries from fires by insuring proper construction of the facility, installation of required fire safety detection equipment and fire confinement equipment, construction and maintenance of fire exits, etc. This code further covers
food service, bathing and
swimming facilities,
lavatories, drinking water,
sewage, insect and
rodent control, weed control,
laundry, linens, bedding, and
drinking glasses. The temporary residence code does not
cover the following building uses: • Facilities that are occupied by the same person for more than 180 consecutive days in a calendar year as their home are not considered to be a temporary residence. Not regulated under this code are:
Children’s camps
(Subpart 7-2) Subpart 7-1 outlines your responsibilities to insure your patrons’ safety in terms of fire safety, drinking water requirements, food service safety, swimming pool safety, and bathing beach safety. The below document should assist you in your responsibilities.
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How to Get a Permit to Operate All temporary residences in Clinton County must be permitted by Clinton County Health Department at least 30 days before the expiration of the facility’s permit and at least 30 days prior to opening a seasonal temporary residence.
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for the "Permit to Operate" form The Department will notify you whether or not plans are needed. If plans are needed, the Clinton County Health Department will require you to contact a New York State licensed engineer or architect to design your plans. Depending on the purposed work, the Department may send other forms to you for your engineer or architect to complete. Subpart 7-1 requires you to give the Clinton County Department of Health a Notice of Intent form at least 15 days before beginning construction. However, the Clinton County Department of Health recommends at least 60 days for large projects to allow time for your review and your engineer or architect to respond to request. If you are working on a food service, drinking water supply, septic system, swimming pool, spa, or beach, you need to contact this Department before any new construction, alterations, modifications, et cetera to these facilities. You must contact your local building inspector or local codes enforcement officer any time that you do construction, deconstruction, alterations, modifications, et cetera of your buildings. The Clinton County Health Department works closely with our New York State Building Code partners to insure an efficient, thorough, and complete review of your plans are done.
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here for the "Notice of Intent" form Do not disconnect the smoke detector during your stay because it is sounds an alarm when you smoke or discharge fire extinguishers or cause a false alarm. THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN. Smoke alarms save people by notifying
people early enough so the people have enough time to escape the fire. If you cause a false alarm(s), many of the large motels and hotels’ fire detection systems notify fire departments that there is a fire at the facility. Nationally a number of fire departments responding to a false alarm had another alarm for a real fire. In fact, a number of these cases resulted in a fatality at the real fire. Also, you may be arrested by a police agency for creating a false alarm at the facility.
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