6A:13A-7.1 Space requirements
(a) The district board of education shall ensure, for all newly contracted private provider and local Head Start agency preschool classrooms, a minimum of 950 square feet per classroom consisting of 750 square feet of usable space, 150 square feet of storage and equipment or furnishings that are either built in or not easily movable and 50 square feet of toilet room.
(b) The district board of education shall ensure that all construction or alteration of playgrounds and playground equipment complies with N.J.A.C. 5:23-7 and 11, the barrier free subcode and playground safety subcode, respectively, found within the Uniform Construction Code.
(c) Any changes affecting the physical space or location of contracted private provider or local Head Start agency preschool classrooms require approval from the school district and shall meet the space requirements established in (a) and (b) above.
(d) The district board of education shall engage in systematic, long-range facilities planning to ensure that adequate facilities exist in the community to meet the elements of high-quality preschool established in this chapter.
Amended by R. 2009 d. 334, effective November 2, 2009. See: 41 N.J.R. 2530(a), 41 N.J.R. 4077(a). In (c), inserted "contracted private provider or local Head Start agency" and substituted "from the school district and shall meet the space requirements established in (a) and (b) above" for "through the equivalency and waiver process established at N.J.A.C. 6A:5, Regulatory Equivalency and Waiver".