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Introduction
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Introduction
The ADA requires that newly constructed and altered state and local government facilities, places of public accommodation, and commercial facilities be readily accessible to, and usable...
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Expanding Your Market: Accessibility Benefits Older Adult Customers
Census Bureau, “Interim Projections of the Population by Selected Age Groups for the United States and States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2030,” 21 April 2005, www.census.gov/population/projections...
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Introduction
The ADA requires that newly constructed and altered state and local government facilities, places of public accommodation, and commercial facilities be readily accessible to, and usable...
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E. Increasing Numbers of Individuals with Hearing and Vision Impairments
An October 21, 2008 Department of Health and Human Services´ Progress Review on Vision and Hearing in the United States noted that Richard Klein, Chief of the NCHS Health Promotion Statistics...
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Sub-Committee Summary of Scope for Recommendations
In 1994-95, 0.21% of elderly (65+) adults used scooters (64,000 people), according to our analysis of the NHIS-D published in 2000 in "Mobility Device Use in the United States."...
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b. Summary of Objectives of, and Legal Basis for, the Proposed Regulation
The proposed rule states that a movie theater owner or operator is required to exhibit movies with closed captioning and audio description for all screenings so long as the movie has been...
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Introduction
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a broad civil rights law guaranteeing equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations, transportation, State...
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Rulemaking History
The Department received comments from individuals from all fifty States and the District of Columbia....
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Relationship to Other Laws
This part does not invalidate or limit the remedies, rights, and procedures of any other Federal, State, or local laws (including State common law) that provide greater or equal protection...
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Web site accessibility. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
See Accessibility of State and Local Government Websites to People with Disabilities (June 2003), available at www.ada.gov/websites2.htm....
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BACKGROUND AND JURISDICTION
The Supervisor operates services, programs, and activities within the meaning of Title II, including maintaining and operating a voting system and voting program for federal, state, and...
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Sections 35.108(d)(1)(viii) and 36.105(d)(1)(viii)—Determination Made Without Regard to the Ameliorative Effects of Mitigating Measures
These provisions stated that the ameliorative effects of mitigating measures should not be considered when determining whether an impairment substantially limits a major life activity....
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Section 35.151(k) Detention and correctional facilities (Section-by-Section Analysis)
A Bureau of Justice Statistics study of State and Federal sentenced inmates (those sentenced to more than one year) shows the total estimated count of State and Federal prisoners aged 55...
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Individual Captioning Devices (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Proposed § 36.303(g)(2)(iii)(A) states, “[a] public accommodation that owns, leases, or leases to, or operates a movie theater shall provide individual captioning devices in accordance with...
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702 Fire Alarm Systems
Comments from the codes community and designers urged the Board to reference the NFPA alarm criteria for purposes of consistency and simplicity, instead of restating very similar requirements...
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11B-805.4.3 Turning space
ETA Editor's Note The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), which has jurisdiction over hospitals and long-term care facilities in California, has issued Code Application...
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Section 35.151(h) Medical care facilities
These comments, from individuals, organizations, and a building code association, argued that it would not be difficult for hospitals to disperse rooms by specialty area, given the high...
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11B-208.2.1 Hospital outpatient facilities
A local zoning code that requires a minimum number of parking spaces according to occupancy type and square footage may be an appropriate guide in assessing the number of spaces in the lot...
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Section 36.406(g) Medical Care Facilities
These comments from individuals, organizations, and a building code association, argued that it would not be difficult for hospitals to disperse rooms by specialty area, given the high level...
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Visual Alarms
Activation of visual appliances in work areas on an as-needed basis does not provide a practicable solution as most codes, standards, and local laws prohibit deactivation of fire alarm appliances...
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Summary of Major Provisions
requires emergency transportable housing units with communication features to provide combination smoke alarms and visible notification appliances complying with NFPA 72 National Fire Alarm Code...
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Costs
by FEMA contain the communication features required by the final rule, including combination smoke alarms and visible notification appliances complying with NFPA 72 National Fire Alarm Code...
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28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Movie Captioning and Video Description ANPRM
Billing Code: 4410-13 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 28 CFR Part 36 CRT Docket No. 112; AG Order No....