No. The NHTSA safety standards and the DOT ADA regulations were designed to complement each other. The manufacturer’s design load represents the amount of weight that the lift is...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) motor vehicle safety regulations require that a wheelchair lift be tested to withstand a 600-pound load. If the manufacturer states that the design load is 800 pounds, can the transportation operator limit actual use to 600 pounds for safety reasons?
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Development of the 2004 ADA/ABA Guidelines
Under this regulation, the Department of Justice covers passenger vessels operated by private entities not primarily engaged in the business of transporting people with respect to the provision...
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3. Alternative Regulatory Approaches: Automated Announcement Systems
final rule – as opposed to specification of a different numeric threshold – was based on not only these policy and legal considerations, but also quantitative analysis of data from the National...
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What other voting rights laws does the Justice Department enforce?
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 1973gg to 1973gg-10) requires states to make voter registration opportunities for federal elections available through the mail and...
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809.3.1.2 Residential Dwelling Unit Smoke Alarms
This requirement is consistent with the NFPA 72 National Fire Alarm Code, which is referenced in the section....
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ADA INFORMATION RESOURCES
National Network of ADA Centers Ten regional centers are funded by the U.S....
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C. Accessible golf cars
The Department of Defense has required the use of single-rider accessible golf cars in federally-owned golf courses pursuant to Section 664 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization...
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2.3.1 Comparison of Demographic Characteristics of Our Sample and U.S. Population of WhMD Users
Demographic information about the U.S. population of WhMD users was obtained through summary reports of the 1994‒95 National Health Interview Survey on Disability (Flagg, 2009; Kaye et al...
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C. The 2014 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Movie Captioning and Audio Description
The Department received a joint comment submitted by the National Association of Theater Owners in conjunction with the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing...
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2. Business Necessity
the legal standard under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act which provides that a selection procedure which screens out a disproportionate number of persons of a particular race, sex or national...
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202.5 Alterations to Qualified Historic Buildings and Facilities
State Historic Preservation Officers are State appointed officials who carry out certain responsibilities under the National Historic Preservation Act....
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Water Hydrants
The Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota (see figure 18) and the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in eastern Washington (figure 103) are among the forests that have successfully...
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Emergency Evacuation Preparedness: Take Responsibility for Your Safety
A Harris Interactive survey commissioned by the National Organization on Disability, December 2001, found that "50 percent of employees with disabilities say no plans have been made to safely...
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Modifications to the Longitudinal Study
Entities such as the National Park Service, US Forest Service, and city Parks and Recreation departments were the central focus of the recruitment process....
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3.9 The Undue Hardship Limitation
For example: A local, independently owned fast food franchise of a national company that receives no funding from that company may assert that it would be an undue hardship to provide an...
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Conditions for Exceptions [1019]
National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 4321 et seq.) National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. §§ 470 et seq.)...
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Executive Summary
The National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that, currently, more than 38 million Americans age 40 and older experience blindness, low vision, and...
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II. Summary of Regulatory Assessment
The data used to support the estimates in this Final Regulatory Assessment (Final RA) focus on (1) the increase in the number of postsecondary students or national examination test takers...
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Rebuilding Together Essex County - Newark, NJ
Rebuilding Together is the nation’s largest volunteer program providing assistance to homeowners who, because of physical or financial limitations, are unable to make needed home repairs...
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11B-1002.4.3 Gaps
and unload position, the vertical difference between the floors shall be within plus or minus 5/8 inches (15.9 mm) and the horizontal gap shall be 3 inches (76 mm) maximum under normal passenger...
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§ 382.5 Qualified individual with a disability
purpose of traveling on the flight for which the ticket has been purchased or obtained; and (2) Meets reasonable, nondiscriminatory contract of carriage requirements applicable to all passengers...
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§382.157(c)
Data concerning a passenger's disability must be recorded separately in the following areas: vision impaired, hearing impaired, vision and hearing impaired, mentally impaired, communicable...
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1002.4.3 Gaps
load and unload position, the vertical difference between the floors shall be within plus or minus 5/8 inches (16 mm) and the horizontal gap shall be 3 inches (75 mm) maximum under normal passenger...
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B. Process to Resolve Complaints
When you receive a complaint from a passenger with a disability, there are certain requirements under the law with which you, your carrier, and a CRO must comply....
