When sales items are displayed or stored on shelves for selection by customers, the store must provide an accessible route to fixed shelves and displays, if doing so is readily achievable...
Search Results "Readily Achievable Barrier Removal"
2010 ADA Definition
Readily Achievable Barrier Removal: Readily achievable means easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without much difficulty or expense. In determining whether an action is readily achievable factors to be considered include –
(1) The nature and cost of the action needed under this part;
(2) The overall financial resources of the site or sites involved in the action; the number of persons employed at the site; the effect on expenses and resources; legitimate safety requirements that are necessary for safe operation, including crime prevention measures; or the impact otherwise of the action upon the operation of the site;
(3) The geographic separateness, and the administrative or fiscal relationship of the site or sites in question to any parent corporation or entity;
(4) If applicable, the overall financial resources of any parent corporation or entity; the overall size of the parent corporation or entity with respect to the number of its employees; the number, type, and location of its facilities; and
(5) If applicable, the type of operation or operations of any parent corporation or entity, including the composition, structure, and functions of the workforce of the parent corporation or entity.
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Shelves and Maneuvering Space
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Sales and Service Counters
Sales and Service Counters When sales or service counters are provided, the counters must be accessible, if doing so is readily achievable....
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Serving Counters
If it is not readily achievable to make the counter accessible, a business can serve the items at nearby accessible tables, if readily achievable....
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Fixed Seating and Tables
Accessible seating must be provided, if doing so is readily achievable, at each accessible table to accommodate people using wheelchairs....
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Common Use Circulation Paths in Employee Work Areas
The requirement for accessible common use circulation paths will not apply to existing facilities pursuant to the readily achievable barrier removal requirement....
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6. What if I can’t afford to install a fixed lift in my pool, or it would be difficult to do so?
If it is not readily achievable for a business to provide a fixed lift – that is, if it would be too difficult or expensive to make these changes – then a business may use other ways, such...
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III-4.4000 Removal of barriers
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7. What is the difference between a “portable” lift and a “fixed” lift?
They are required to do so if that is readily achievable, except in certain circumstances discussed below....
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III-4.4100 General
Public accommodations must remove architectural barriers and communication barriers that are structural in nature in existing facilities, when it is readily achievable to do so....
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III-4.4200 Readily achievable barrier removal
III−4.4200 Readily achievable barrier removal. Public accommodations are required to remove barriers only when it is "readily achievable" to do so....
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III-4.4300 Standards to apply
Measures taken to remove barriers should comply with the ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) contained in the appendix to the Department's rule....
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III-4.4400 Continuing obligation
The obligation to engage in readily achievable barrier removal is a continuing one....
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III-4.4500 Priorities for barrier removal
The "readily achievable" obligation to remove barriers in existing facilities does not extend to areas of a facility that are used exclusively by employees as work areas....
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III-4.4600 Seating in assembly areas
Public accommodations are required to remove barriers to physical access in assembly areas such as theaters, lecture halls, and conference rooms with fixed seating....
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III-4.4700 Transportation barriers
III−4.4700 Transportation barriers....
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III-4.5000 Alternatives to barrier removal
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8. How do I determine if it is readily achievable for me to install a lift in my existing pool?
How do I determine if it is readily achievable for me to install a lift in my existing pool?...
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III-4.5100 General
ILLUSTRATION 4: A restaurant determines that it is not readily achievable to remove physical barriers to access in a specific area of the restaurant....
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III-4.5200 Multiscreen cinemas
The Department's regulation expressly recognizes that it may not be readily achievable to remove enough barriers to provide access to all of the theaters in a multiscreen cinema....
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10. I do not have a lift at my pool and it is not readily achievable to provide one now. Do I have to close the pool?
I do not have a lift at my pool and it is not readily achievable to provide one now. Do I have to close the pool? No....
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LIMITATION ON BARRIER REMOVAL OBLIGATIONS
§36.304(g) LIMITATION ON BARRIER REMOVAL OBLIGATIONS....
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Assessing Your Facility
Businesses are strongly encouraged to assess their facilities now to determine what architectural barriers exist....
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12. What if I have two pools or a pool and a spa? Can I share a lift between pools?
For existing pools, whether each pool or spa must have its own lift (or other accessible means of entry) depends on whether it is readily achievable....
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13. If I can’t provide a lift at every pool, do I have to close the one(s) that has no lift?
If it is not readily achievable to provide a lift at each pool, the inaccessible pool(s) may remain open....