In addition, if an agency alters an existing facility for any reason -- including reasons unrelated to accessibility -- the altered areas must be made accessible to individuals with disabilities...
Search Results "Alteration"
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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22. Q. We are building a new prison. Do we need to make it accessible?
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§ 37.43(b)
maximum extent feasible applies to the occasional case where the nature of an existing facility makes it impossible to comply fully with applicable accessibility standards through a planned alteration...
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3) Restaurants
Contains some less stringent requirements for alterations (§5). UFAS: Less detailed requirements. Does not address counters and bars....
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8.5 Updating Standards in the Future
First, attributes of the population of individuals with disabilities might change in the future, perhaps altering in some way their accessibility needs....
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12209(c)(5) Construction
--Nothing in this section shall alter the enforcement procedures for individuals with disabilities provided in the General Accounting Office Personnel Act of 1980 and regulations promulgated...
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206.4.4.3 Key Stations and Intercity Rail Stations
Key stations and existing intercity rail stations required by Subpart C of 49 CFR part 37 to be altered shall have at least one entrance complying with 404....
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12209(7) Construction
(7) Construction Nothing in this section shall alter the enforcement procedures for individuals with disabilities provided in the General Accounting Office Personnel Act of 1980 and regulations...
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Reconstruction
For the purposes of FSTAG, actions are categorized as construction, alteration, or maintenance....
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Section 9, Accessible Transient Lodging (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
be provided for each 25 rooms being altered until the number of accessible rooms equals that required under the new construction standard....
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III. DISCUSSION
(2) Under Title II of the ADA, there is no undue burden defense available to public entities for failure to make their facilities that have been newly constructed or altered since January...
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Section 9, Accessible Transient Lodging (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
be provided for each 25 rooms being altered until the number of accessible rooms equals that required under the new construction standard....
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EXISTING BUILDING OR FACILITY
[DSA-AC] A facility in existence on any given date, without regard to whether the facility may also be considered newly constructed or altered under this code....
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§ 35.150(b)(5) Exemption for small facilities
For measures taken to comply with the program accessibility requirements of this section, existing facilities shall comply with the applicable requirements for alterations in § 35.151 of...
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R202.3.3 Reduction in Access Prohibited
An alteration shall not decrease or have the effect of decreasing the accessibility of a facility or an accessible connection to an adjacent building or site below the requirements for new...
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F216.13 Trailhead Signs
Where new trail information signs are provided at trailheads on newly constructed or altered trails designed for use by hikers or pedestrians, the signs shall comply with 1017.11....
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4) Medical or health care facilities
Contains special, less stringent requirements for alterations (§6). UFAS: Uses different terms to describe types of facilities. Required clearances in rooms exceed ADAAG requirements....
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Undue Burden
Undue Burden – means significant difficulty or expense and along with "fundamental alteration" establishes the limitation on a public accommodation with regard to the provision of auxiliary...
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§ 35.151(i)(1)
(1) Newly constructed or altered streets, roads, and highways must contain curb ramps at any intersection having curbs or other barriers to entry from a street level pedestrian walkway....
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§ 35.151(j)(1)
(1) Residential dwelling units designed and constructed or altered by public entities that will be offered for sale to individuals shall comply with the requirements for residential facilities...
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11B-202.2 Additions
An educational campus is considered a facility, and additions, alterations and structural repairs shall comply with Section 11B-202.4. ◼ [2010 ADA Standards] 202.2 Additions....
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Reconstruction
For the purposes of FSORAG and FSTAG, actions are categorized as construction, alteration, or maintenance....
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Reconstruction
For the purposes of the FSTAG and FSORAG, actions are categorized as construction, alteration, or maintenance....
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STRUCTURAL IMPRACTICABILITY
Changes having little likelihood of being accomplished without removing or altering a load-bearing structural member and/or incurring an increased cost of 50 percent or more of the value...
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VI. Auxiliary Aids
., "significant difficulty or expense") or in a fundamental alteration in the nature of the goods or services are not required by the regulation....