The height of a guardrail (to prevent falling off the edge) is not specified by ADAAG; local building codes do, however, commonly regulate the minimum height of a guardrail at 42 inches....
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  Handrails [4.8.5]
  
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  3. Emergency Transportable Housing
  
according to recommendations from an advisory panel it organized, the Emergency Transportable Housing Advisory Committee, which included representation from disability groups, industry and code...
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  11B-233.3.1.2.6.4 Test number three, unusual characteristics test
  
Unusual characteristics include sites located in a state or federally designated floodplain or coastal high-hazard areas and sites subject to other similar requirements of law or code that...
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  surface mounted toilet paper dispensers
  
Although best practices used to include recessed or semi-recessed toilet paper dispensers adjacent to disabled accessible water closets, the codes appear to be silent on this as a requirement...
 - Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) Digital Accessibility Tool by SSB BART Group
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  203.9 Employee Work Areas
  
The advisory committee recommended this change for consistency with model building codes which, unlike ADAAG, do not provide a similar exception for work areas....
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  11B-212.3 Sinks
  
Scrub sinks, as defined in California Plumbing Code Section 221.0, shall not be required to comply with Section 11B-606....
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  Construction and Manufacturing Tolerances: ADA Standard Section 104.1.1
  
Section 104.1.1 of the ADA Standards covers the most current information on dimensions in regards to construction and manufacturing tolerances in the ADA Standards.
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  11B-604.3.2 Overlap
  
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, issued Code Application...
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  11B-805.7 Built-in cabinets and work surfaces
  
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, issued Code Application...
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  11B-403.3 Slope
  
There is an important distinction between a “sidewalk” and a “walk”, and they are treated differently under the California Building Code....
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  Re: Lavatories Adjacent to Partitions
  
I would argue that it is a stretch of code definitions to interpret the face of a paper towel dispenser to be considered a 'wall or partition'....
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  [2010 ADAS] 105.2.2 ASME
  
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers Three Park Avenue New York, NY 10016-5990 Standard Reference Number Title Referenced in code section...
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  Official Definitions
  
eligible for payment for services that are provided for rehabilitation of your vision – receiving rehabilitation related to your visual impairment, Medicare defines low vision using ICD-9-CM codes...
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  ETA Opinion: ADA Signage at Exit Doors
  
ETA Opinion: ADA Signage at Exit Doors Notes from written and oral communication with the DOJ and references to the International Building Code and the Access Board The Department...
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  General description of monetized benefits for water closet clearance in single-user toilet rooms—out-swinging doors (Req. #28)
  
However, due to the widespread adoption at the State and local level of model code provisions that mirror Req. #28, it is further understood that about half of all existing facilities assumed...
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  Appendix 4 – References
  
New York: International Code Council, Inc. American National Standards Institute, Inc. (1980). ...
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  General description of monetized benefits for water closet clearance in single-user toilet rooms—out-swinging doors (Req. # 28)
  
However, due to the widespread adoption at the State and local level of model code provisions that mirror Req. # 28, it is further understood that about half of all existing facilities assumed...
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  Expanding Your Market: Tax Incentives for Businesses
  
Tax Credit Small businesses with 30 or fewer employees or total revenues of $1 million or less can use the Disabled Access Credit (Internal Revenue Code, Section 44)....
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  General description of monetized benefits for water closet clearance in single-user toilet rooms—in-swinging doors (Req. # 32)
  
However, due to the widespread adoption at the State and local level of model code provisions that mirror Req. #32, it is further understood that slightly more than 70 percent of all existing...