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882.102, (b) Be equipped with at least one smoke detector in working condition, and (c) Must be placed on the site in a stable
<br />manner and be free from hazards such as sliding or wind damage.
<br />(2) Acceptability criteria. A Manufactured Home must be securely anchored by a tie -down device which distributes and
<br />transforms the loads imposed by the unit to appropriate ground anchors to resist wind overturning and sliding.
<br />(p) Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Unit
<br />(1) Performance requirements. The foregoing standards shall apply except for paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
<br />(m), (n), and (o).
<br />(2) Each SRO unit shall be occupied by no more than one person.
<br />(3) Exterior doors and windows accessible from outside the SRO unit must be able to be locked.
<br />(4) Sanitary facilities, space and security shall meet local code standards for single room occupancy housing. In the absence
<br />of applicable local code standards, the requirements for habitable rooms used for living and sleeping purposes contained in the
<br />American Public Health Association's Recommended Housing Maintenance and Occupancy Ordinance shall be used.
<br />(q) Shared Housing
<br />(1) Applicability of housing quality standards to entire unit. The entire unit must comply with the Performance
<br />Requirements and Acceptability Criteria, as provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section and in paragraphs (d) through (1) of
<br />this section.
<br />(2) Facilities available for Family. The facilities available for the use of each assisted Family in Shared Housing under the
<br />Family's Lease must include (whether in the Family's Private Space or in the Common Space) a living room, sanitary facilities in
<br />accordance with paragraph (a), and food preparation and refuse disposal facilities in accordance with paragraph (b).
<br />(3) Space and security.
<br />(i) Inapplicability of paragraph (c). Paragraph (c) of this section does not apply to Shared Housing.
<br />(ii) Performance requirement. The entire unit must provide adequate space and security for all its occupants (whether assisted
<br />or unassisted). The total number of occupants in the unit may not exceed 12 persons. Each unit must contain Private Space
<br />containing at least one bedroom for each assisted Family, plus Common Space for shared use by the occupants of the unit. The
<br />Private Space for each assisted Family must contain at least one bedroom for each two persons in the Family. (The two
<br />preceding sentences do not apply to the case of two individuals sharing a one - bedroom unit. However, in that situation, no other
<br />persons may occupy the unit.) Common Space must be appropriate for shared use by the occupants. If any members of the
<br />Family are physically handicapped (as of the time of lease approval), the unit's Common Space and the Family's Private Space
<br />must be accessible and usable by them.
<br />(iii) Acceptability criteria. The unit must contain a living room, a kitchen, bathroom(s), and bedroom(s). Persons of opposite
<br />sex, other than husband and wife or very young children, may not be required to occupy the same bedroom. Exterior doors and
<br />windows accessible from outside the unit must be lockable.
<br />(r) Smoke detectors
<br />(1) Performance requirement. After October 30, 1992, each dwelling unit must include at least one battery- operated or hard-
<br />wired smoke detector, in proper working condition, on each level of the unit. If the unit is occupied by hearing- impaired persons,
<br />smoke detectors must have an alarm system, designed for hearing- impaired persons, in each bedroom occupied by a hearing -
<br />impaired person.
<br />(2) Acceptability criteria. The smoke detector must be located, to the extent practicable, in a hallway adjacent to a bedroom,
<br />unless the unit is occupied by a hearing- impaired person, in which case each bedroom occupied by a hearing- impaired person
<br />must have an alarm system connected to the smoke detector installed in the hallway.
<br />[Code of Federal Regulations]
<br />[Title 24, Volume 4, Parts 700 to 16991
<br />[Revised as of April 1, 19981
<br />From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
<br />[CITE: 24CFR882.109]
<br />[43 FR 61246, Dec. 29, 1978, as amended at 44 FR 21630, Apr. 11, 1979;
<br />44 FR 65364, Nov. 9, 1979; 49 FR 12237, Mar, 29, 1984; 50 FR 9269, Mar.
<br />7, 1985; 50 FR 38794, Sept. 25, 1985; 51 FR 21309, June 11, 1986; 51 FR
<br />24324, July 3, 1986; 52 FR 1893, Jan. 15,1987; 52 FR 9828, Mar, 27,
<br />1987; 53 FR 4388, Feb. 16, 1988; 53 FR 7734, Mar. 10, 1988; 53 FR 20801,
<br />June 6,1988; 57 FR 33851, July 30,1992]
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