{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-pc-422","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Admin. Code § PC 422","heading":"Section PC 422: Health Care Fixtures and Equipment","body":"422.1 Scope.\n\nThis section shall govern those aspects of health care plumbing systems that differ from plumbing systems in other structures. Health care plumbing systems shall conform to the requirements of this section in addition to the other requirements of this code. The provisions of this section shall apply to the special devices and equipment installed and maintained in the following occupancies: hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the aged, orphanages, infirmaries, first aid stations, psychiatric facilities, clinics, professional offices of dentists and doctors, mortuaries, educational facilities, surgery, dentistry, research and testing laboratories, establishments manufacturing pharmaceutical drugs and medicines, animal care facilities, and other structures with similar apparatus and equipment classified as plumbing.\n\n422.2 Approval.\n\nAll special plumbing fixtures, equipment, devices, assemblies and apparatus shall be of an approved type.\n\n422.3 Protection.\n\nAll devices, appurtenances, appliances and apparatus intended to serve some special function, such as sterilization, distillation, processing, cooling, or storage of ice or foods, and that connect to either the water supply or drainage system, shall be provided with protection against backflow, flooding, fouling, contamination of the water supply system and stoppage of the drain.\n\n422.4 Materials.\n\nFixtures designed for therapy, special cleansing or disposal of waste materials, combinations of such purposes, or any other special purpose, shall be of smooth, impervious, corrosion-resistant materials and, where subjected to temperatures in excess of 180°F (82°C), shall be capable of withstanding, without damage, higher temperatures.\n\n422.5 Access.\n\nAccess shall be provided to concealed piping in connection with special fixtures where such piping contains steam traps, valves, relief valves, check valves, vacuum breakers or other similar items that require periodic inspection, servicing, maintenance or repair. Access shall be provided to concealed piping that requires periodic inspection, maintenance or repair.\n\n422.6 Clinical sink.\n\nA clinical sink shall have an integral trap in which the upper portion of a visible trap seal provides a water surface. The fixture shall be designed so as to permit complete removal of the contents by siphonic or blowout action and to reseal the trap. A flushing rim shall provide water to cleanse the interior surface. The fixture shall have the flushing and cleansing characteristics of a water closet.\n\n422.7 Prohibited usage of clinical sinks and service sinks.\n\nA clinical sink serving a soiled utility room shall not be considered as a substitute for, or be utilized as, a service sink. A service sink shall not be utilized for the disposal of urine, fecal matter or other human waste.\n\n422.8 Ice prohibited in soiled utility room.\n\nMachines for manufacturing ice, or any device for the handling or storage of ice, shall not be located in a soiled utility room.\n\n422.9 Sterilizer equipment requirements.\n\nThe approval and installation of all sterilizers shall conform to the requirements of the New York city mechanical code.\n\n422.9.1 Sterilizer piping.\n\nAccess for the purposes of inspection and maintenance shall be provided to all sterilizer piping and devices necessary for the operation of sterilizers.\n\n422.9.2 Steam supply.\n\nSteam supplies to sterilizers, including those connected by pipes from overhead mains or branches, shall be drained to prevent any moisture from reaching the sterilizer. The condensate drainage from the steam supply shall be discharged by gravity.\n\n422.9.3 Steam condensate return.\n\nSteam condensate returns from sterilizers shall be a gravity return system.\n\n422.9.4 Condensers.\n\nPressure sterilizers shall be equipped with a means of condensing and cooling the exhaust steam vapors. Nonpressure sterilizers shall be equipped with a device that will automatically control the vapor, confining the vapors within the vessel.\n\n422.10 Special elevations.\n\nControl valves, vacuum outlets and devices protruding from a wall of an operating, emergency, recovery, examining or delivery room, or in a corridor or other location where patients are transported on a wheeled stretcher, shall be located at an elevation that prevents bumping the patient or stretcher against the device.","path":["New York City Administrative Code","Title 28","Chapter 6: New York City Plumbing Code"],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Admin/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:57Z","sha256":"b73eb762a356185f06c853a68e193c84bab66b934171b64022d9d9e6f7681e2d","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-pc-421","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-admin.-code-pc-423"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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