The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation has authority over existing facilities that are subject to the requirement for removal of barriers under Texas Government Code, Chapter 469...
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101.2 Effect on Removal of Barriers in Existing Facilities
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"Readily achievable.'' (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department believes that this complex issue is most appropriately resolved on a case-by-case basis....
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Common Use Circulation Paths in Employee Work Areas
The Department has consistently taken the position that barrier removal requirements do not apply to areas used exclusively by employees because the purpose of title III is to ensure that...
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Complaints
Second, the Department has a legitimate interest in ensuring that its legal requirements are implemented. It does not matter to the Department who brings a problem to its attention....
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2. Accessible lavatories
At the present time, however, the Department is concerned that the revenue loss and other cost impacts of requiring accessible lavatories on single-aisle aircraft could be too great....
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B. JURISDICTION
The ADA also requires the Department to conduct periodic compliance reviews of public accommodations. 42 U.S.C. § 12188(b)(1)(A)(i). 10. ...
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Section 35.151(b) Alterations (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department's proposed rule would amend § 35.151(b)(2) to make clear that the path of travel requirements of § 35.151(b)(4) do not apply to measures taken solely to comply with program...
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II. Statutory and Regulatory Background
The Department implemented the Act by a final rule published January 23, 1989 (54 FR 3232), and which became effective on March 12, 1989....
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Line of Sight and Dispersion of Wheelchair Spaces in Assembly Areas
In 1994, the Department issued official guidance interpreting the requirement for comparable lines of sight in the 1991 Standards to mean wheelchair spaces and companion seats in sports...
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B. Legal foundation for captioning and video description
It is the Department's view that the legislative history of the ADA and the Department's commentary in the preamble to the 1991 regulation make clear that Congress was not requiring open...
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Sections §§ 35.108(d)(1)(vii) and 36.105(d)(1)(vii)—Comparison of Individual’s Performance of Major Life Activity Usually Will Not Require Scientific, Medical, or Statistical Analysis
The Department received several comments in support of these provisions and a number of comments opposing all or part of them....
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Section 36.303 Auxiliary Aids and Services (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
The Department has added videotext displays, computer-aided transcription services, and open and closed captioning to the list of examples....
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About the Author
He worked for the Wisconsin and Illinois State Departments of Transportation and with an engineering consulting firm before joining the Forest Service in 1992....
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Can you provide recommended signage for ADA accessible spaces?
For projects within the public rights-of-way, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has several signs for EV charging in its California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control...
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Has there been consideration for electric vehicles being parked in valet mode that could share EVSE and meet the equivalent EVSE option? This could reduce the cost of construction and major electrical upgrades.
DSA encourages designers to consult with jurisdictional building officials (primarily city- and county building departments) whenever there is a question of code interpretation or application...
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§27.72(c)
The agreement shall be made available, on request, to representatives of the Department of Transportation....
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Modification in policies, practices, or procedures.
In order to clarify this provision, the Department is incorporating into the proposed regulation guidance that it has provided previously through technical assistance....
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V. Discussion of Principal Public Comment Issues, and Section-by-Section Analysis of the Final Guidelines
The following presents a discussion of the principal issues raised by the commenters, and the Department's response to each issue....
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§8.57(b) Noncompliance with §8.50
The Department is not required to provide assistance during the pendency of the administrative proceeding under such paragraph (c), except where the assistance is due and payable under a...
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§8.55(b) Compliance reports
In general, recipients should have available for the Department data showing the extent to which individuals with handicaps are beneficiaries of federally assisted programs....
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"Housing at a Place of Education" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
‘‘Housing at a Place of Education'' (Section-by-Section Analysis) The Department has added a new definition to § 36.104, ‘‘housing at a place of education,'' to clarify the types of educational...
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7.2(1)
(1) In department stores and miscellaneous retail stores where counters have cash registers and are provided for sales or distribution of goods or services to the public, at least one of...
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III. Plan Maintenance
In addition, a system for reporting new hazards and accommodation needs should be developed; a relationship with local fire, police, and HazMat departments should be maintained; and new...
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Updates to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs updates regulations implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors...