Arizona survey readiness
What Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing can ask you for, each line cited — and the ones you can't yet produce.
What Arizona requires
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period. Drills at the required frequency: A disaster drill for employees on each shift at least once every three months, documented. Separately an evacuation drill for employees AND residents at least once every six months, including everyone on the premises — except a resident whose medical record documents that evacuating would cause them harm, plus enough caregivers to keep the residents who stay safe. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)
- Proof your plan was filed, and the date it went. Arizona takes the plan at the STATE licensing application rather than through a county emergency management agency. There is no local EM filing or approval step — the plan is submitted to ADHS with the application and thereafter reviewed at least every 12 months in house. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)
- Records going back as far as the rule requires. Documentation of each evacuation drill maintained for at least 12 months after the drill. The disaster plan is reviewed at least once every 12 months. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)
- Required disaster plan contents. When, how and where residents will be relocated; how each resident's medical record will be available to whoever provides services during the disaster; a plan ensuring each resident's medication is available to administer; and a plan for obtaining food and water for everyone present, at the facility or at the relocation site. Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818
The evidence, and where it comes from
Every item above needs something you can hand over. The Arizona fire drill log produces the drill record at the frequency this state sets, the emergency plan builder writes the plan itself from the same research, and the compliance calendar puts the life-safety tests on dates. Anything you record against the building shows up on the checklist already ticked.
Everything else we’ve researched about Arizona
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Arizona deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Arizona deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Arizona deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
- Arizona move-in condition reportThe walkthrough record that decides deposit arguments later.
A self-assessment against published rules, not a compliance determination. CompliMaint issues nothing — Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing and your authority having jurisdiction do. Requirements we could not verify are absent rather than guessed at.
Questions people ask
- What does an Arizona surveyor ask for on emergency preparedness?
- Your fire and evacuation drill records for the period (Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)). Proof your plan was filed, and the date it went (Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)). Records going back as far as the rule requires (Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818 (Emergency and Safety Standards)). Required disaster plan contents (Ariz. Admin. Code R9-10-818). Source: Arizona Department of Health Services — Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing. Last checked July 2026.