Accommodation in nursing homes

(1) Patients in a nursing home shall be accommodated only in rooms with a minimum floor area of seventy square feet to every bed, with at least three feet between beds. (2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, no nursing home shall receive more patients than the number of beds which the home is permitted to have under subsection (1) of this section. (3) The Director of Health Services may, in writing, permit any nursing home to have more beds than is prescribed in this section, if he is satisfied that any particular emergency exists which justifies his granting such a permit.