11B-213 Toilet Facilities and Bathing Facilities — 2025 California Building Code
California Building Code (Title 24, Part 2) · 2025 edition · updated 2026-09-25 · California
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How many accessible stalls and urinals does my restroom need?
At least 5% of toilet compartments (minimum one) must be accessible; at least 10% of urinals (minimum one) must be accessible. With six or more fixtures, add the same number of ambulatory-accessible toilet compartments as accessible ones.
Cite as: 2025 California Building Code (Title 24, Part 2) § 11B-213 · Effective January 1, 2026 · Official source: Building Standards Commission
11B- 213.1 General. Where toilet facilities and bathing facilities are provided, they shall comply with Section 11B- 213. Where toilet facilities and bathing facilities are provided in facilities permitted by Section 11B- 206.2.3 Exception 1 not to connect stories by an accessible route, toilet facilities and bathing facilities shall be provided on a story connected by an accessible route to an accessible entrance.
11B-213.1.1 Toilet facilities for designated user groups. Where separate toilet facilities are provided for the exclusive use of sepa- rate user groups, the toilet facilities serving each user group shall comply with Section 11B-213.
11B- 213.2 Toilet rooms and bathing rooms. Where toilet rooms are provided, each toilet room shall comply with Section 11B- 603. Where bathing rooms are provided, each bathing room shall comply with Section 11B- 603 .
Exceptions:
- In alterations where it is technically infeasible to comply with Section 11B- 603, altering existing toilet or bathing rooms shall not be required where a single unisex (single-user or family) toilet room or bathing room complying with Section 11B- 213.2.1 is provided and located in the same area and on the same floor as existing inaccessible toilet or bathing
rooms.
Reserved.
Where multiple single user portable toilet or bathing units are clustered at a single location 5 percent, but no fewer than one, of the toilet units and bathing units at each cluster shall comply with Section 11B- 603. Portable toilet units and bathing units complying with Section 11B- 603 shall be identified by the International Symbol of Accessibility complying with Section 11B- 703.7.2.1.
Where multiple single user toilet rooms are clustered at a single location, 50 percent, but no fewer than one, of the single user toilet rooms for each use at each cluster shall comply with Section 11B- 603 .
11B- 213.2.1 Unisex ( single-user or family) toilet and unisex (single-user or family) bathing rooms. Unisex (single-user or family) toilet rooms shall contain not more than one lavatory, and not more than two water closets without urinals or one water closet and one urinal. Unisex (single-user or family) bathing rooms shall contain one shower or one shower and one bathtub, one lavatory, and one water closet. Doors to unisex (single-user or family) toilet rooms and unisex (single-user or family) bathing rooms shall have privacy latches.
11B-213.2.2 Unisex (Patient) toilet rooms in medical care and long-term care facilities. Common-use unisex toilet rooms for exclusive patient use not located within patient bedrooms shall contain a lavatory and one water closet.
11B-213.2.3 Unisex (Patient) bathing rooms in medical care and long-term care facilities. Common-use unisex bathing rooms for exclusive patient use not located within patient bedrooms shall contain one shower or one bathtub, one lavatory, and one water closet.
11B-213.2.4 Multi-user all-gender toilet facilities. Where multi-user all-gender toilet facilities are provided, they shall comply with Section 11B-213.3.1.
11B- 213.3 Plumbing fixtures and accessories. Plumbing fixtures and accessories provided in a toilet room or bathing room required to comply with Section 11B- 213.2 shall comply with Section 11B- 213.3.
11B- 213.3.1 Toilet compartments and urinal compartments. Where only toilet compartments are provided, they shall comply with Section 11B-213.3.1.1. Where both toilet and urinal compartments are provided, they shall comply with Section 11B-213.3.1.2.
11B-213.3.1.1 Toilet compartments. Where toilet compartments are provided, at least five percent of the toilet compartments, or five percent of the combination of toilet compartments and urinals, but no fewer than one toilet compartment shall comply
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with Section 11B- 604.8.1. In addition to the compartments required to comply with Section 11B- 604.8.1, where six or more toilet compartments are provided, or where the combination of urinals and water closets totals six or more fixtures, toilet compart- ments complying with Section 11B-604.8.2 shall be provided in the same quantity as the toilet compartments required to comply with Section 11B-604.8.1.
11B-213.3.1.2 Toilet rooms with toilet compartments and urinal compartments. Where both toilet compartments and urinal compartments are provided, at least five percent of toilet compartments, but no fewer than one, shall comply with Section 11B- 604.8.1 and at least ten percent of urinal compartments, but no fewer than one, shall comply with Section 11B-605.5. In addition to the toilet compartments required to comply with Section 11B-604.8.1 and urinal compartments required to comply with Section 11B- 605.5, where the combination of urinals and water closets totals six or more fixtures, toilet compartments complying with Section 11B-604.8.2 shall be provided in the same quantity as the toilet compartments required to comply with Section 11B-604.8.1. At all compartments not required to comply with Section 11B-604.8 or Section 11B-605.5, compartment doors shall be in-swinging and self- closing. All individual compartments shall be identified with a sign complying with Section 11B-216.8.3.
11B- 213.3.2 Water closets. Where water closets are provided, at least 5 percent but no fewer than one shall comply with Section 11B- 604 .
11B- 213.3.3 Urinals. Where one or more urinals are provided, at least 10 percent but no fewer than one shall comply with Section 11B- 605 .
11B- 213.3.4 Lavatories. Where lavatories are provided, at least 10 percent but no fewer than one shall comply with Section 11B- 606 and shall not be located in a toilet or urinal compartment .
11B- 213.3.5 Mirrors. Where mirrors are provided, at least one shall comply with Section 11B- 603.3.
11B- 213.3.6 Bathing facilities. Where bathtubs or showers are provided, at least one bathtub complying with Section 11B- 607 or at least one shower complying with Section 11B- 608 shall be provided. Where two or more accessible showers are provided within the same functional area, at least one shower shall be opposite hand from the other or others (that is, one left-hand controls versus right-hand controls). Transfer type shower compartments shall be permitted in transient lodging guest rooms, multibedroom hous- ing units in undergraduate student housing and residential dwelling units; and shall not be permitted at other locations to meet the requirements of Section 11B-213.3.6.
11B- 213.3.7 Coat hooks and shelves. Where coat hooks or shelves are provided in toilet rooms without toilet compartments, at least one of each type shall comply with Section 11B- 603.4. Where coat hooks or shelves are provided in toilet compartments, at least one of each type complying with Section 11B- 604.8.3 shall be provided in toilet compartments required to comply with Section 11B- 213.3.1. Where coat hooks or shelves are provided in bathing facilities, at least one of each type complying with Section 11B- 603.4 shall serve fixtures required to comply with Section 11B- 213.3.6.
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