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2010 ADA Definition
Alteration: A change to a building or facility that affects or could affect the usability of the building or facility or portion thereof. Alterations include, but are not limited to, remodeling, renovation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, historic restoration, resurfacing of circulation paths or vehicular ways, changes or rearrangement of the structural parts or elements, and changes or rearrangement in the plan configuration of walls and full-height partitions. Normal maintenance, reroofing, painting or wallpapering, or changes to mechanical and electrical systems are not alterations unless they affect the usability of the building or facility.
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3.9 The Undue Hardship Limitation
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B. Accessibility
1993 are often the best candidates for emergency shelters because they were subject to ADA requirements for physical accessibility when they were built.4 Some older facilities have been altered...
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1. Purpose and Need for Rule and Scope of Regulatory Assessment
all times and for all showings whenever movies are produced, distributed, or otherwise made available with such features unless to do so would result in an undue burden or a fundamental alteration...
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Maximum side reach ranges. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The 48 inch maximum reach range would apply fully to alterations and new construction. ...
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ADA Facilities Compliance Strategies for Private Hospitals
MONITOR - Track all expenditures for alterations and renovations as well as for upgrades along the path of travel as required....
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ADA Facilities Compliance Strategies for Private Entities
MONITOR - Track all expenditures for alterations and renovations as well as for upgrades along the path of travel as required....
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Lateral grab bar use
Lateral bar usage was not consistent for all transfers within a protocol ranging from 5% - 100% across all protocols and is likely influenced in part by alterations in the setup parameter...
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Sources of Technical Assistance
for Hotels and Motels to Ensure Access to Services and Facilities by Customers Who Are Blind, Deaf-Blind, or Visually-Impaired Common ADA Errors and Omissions in New Construction and Alterations...
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QUESTION: WHAT DOES THE RULE MEAN BY “EXISTING FREIGHT OPERATIONS?”
In addition, where stations serve lines shared by passenger and freight traffic, and a freight train can bypass the track adjacent to the new or altered passenger platform via a gauntlet...
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Gates and Barriers
In alterations, a projection of five-eighths of an inch (16 millimeters) into the clear width is allowed for the gate latch stop....
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Trash, Recycling, and Other Essential Containers
However, if a condition for exception in an alteration project at an existing site prohibits full compliance with a specific requirement for clear floor or ground space (surface, slope,...
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II. DEFINITIONS
procedures when such modifications are necessary to afford programs, services, facilities, and activities to individuals with disabilities, unless making such modifications would fundamentally alter...
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III-5.3000 Application of ADAAG
ILLUSTRATION 4 [sic]: Although mobile health care screening vans are "facilities" subject to the requirements of title III, there are no specific ADAAG standards for newly constructed or altered...
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7.1. Purpose and Objective of the Final Rule, Relative to Movie Theaters Categorized As Small
description whenever these theaters exhibit digital movies produced, distributed, or otherwise made available with such features unless to do so would result in an undue burden or a fundamental alteration...
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III-7.2100 Equivalent facilitation
For instance -- 1) In altered areas, elevator car dimensions can be smaller than the standards would mandate for new construction (§4.1.6(3)(c)); 2) Rather than install a text telephone...
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Appendix E to Part 37—Reasonable Modification Requests
The first is where granting the request would fundamentally alter the entity's services, programs, or activities....
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Section 35.151(f) Housing at a place of education
There are other differences between the two sets of standards as well with respect to requirements for accessible windows, alterations, kitchens, accessible route throughout a unit, and...
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COMMENTS
The Department believes that the degree of barrier removal required under §36.304 may be less, but certainly would not be required to exceed, the standards for alterations under the ADA...
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Subpart F-Certification of State Laws or Local Building Codes (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In this regard, certification operates as a bridge between the obligation to comply with the 1991 Standards in new construction and alterations, and the administrative schemes of state and...
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I. Steps to Ensure Access for All in Emergencies and Disasters
When altering or rebuilding after a disaster, ensure that alterations to facilities and the design and construction of new or replacement facilities comply with all applicable federal accessibility...
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Application
ensuring physical or programmatic accessibility or providing auxiliary aids and services to ensure adequate communication and participation, unless doing so would result in a fundamental alteration...
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General Comments (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
General Comments One commenter urged the Department to move all or portions of subpart D, New Construction and Alterations, to the appendix (ADAAG) or to duplicate portions of subpart...
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20. Existing facilities
If sufficient relocation of classes is not possible using existing facilities, enough alterations to ensure program accessibility are required....
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Service Animals
A public entity is not required to permit a service animal if the animal would create a legitimate safety risk or would fundamentally alter the nature of a public entity’s programs, services...