(a) An agency operating state institutions may authorize any of its institutions to furnish “duty” laundry free of charge to employees. Duty laundry is defined as uniforms required to be worn by employees as a condition of employment.

(b) An agency operating state institutions may authorize any of its institutions to furnish free of charge household laundry to occupants of employee non-housekeeping rooms and suites of rooms at the institution. Household laundry is defined as bedding, bed linens, and towels. Employees and their families renting state-owned housekeeping quarters on institutional grounds may be furnished household laundry service on a piece-rate charge basis sufficient to cover the costs of all supplies, materials, delivery, and labor incident to the furnishing of such service, provided the employees are living on the grounds of an institution which operates a laundry of adequate capacity or which receives laundry service from another state institution operating such a laundry. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may additionally authorize such service to employees living outside of the institutional grounds, as stipulated in subsection (c) below.

(c) Personal laundry includes clothing and all other household textile items not defined above which are commonly sent out of a household for periodic washing. An agency operating state institutions may authorize any of its institutions which operates a laundry of adequate capacity or which receives laundry service from another state institution operating such a laundry to furnish personal laundry service to occupants of state-owned employee non-housekeeping rooms and suites of rooms on institutional grounds. The charges for this service will be on a piece-rate basis sufficient to cover the costs of all supplies, materials, delivery, and labor incident to the furnishing of such service. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may additionally authorize any institution under its supervision that has an institutional laundry of adequate capacity to provide household and personal laundry service to employees and their families who do not live on the institutional grounds. Charges for personal laundry service to employees living off the grounds will be the same as for employees living on the grounds; pick-up or delivery service will not be furnished by the state to employees at any location off the institutional grounds.

(d) Articles of laundry belonging to state employees that are lost or damaged in institutional laundry operations will not be replaced or paid for from state funds. Employees who take advantage of the state-operated laundry service facilities will accept the risk of such loss or damage.

(e) An agency that may authorize the furnishing of laundry service to some of its employees may discontinue such service at any time; it may limit the types or quantity of articles which will be laundered; and in any other manner not in conflict with these regulations, it may set such conditions as it may deem advisable upon laundry service to employees. There is no requirement for similarity of service, charges, or authorization for laundry service at institutions within an agency.