Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 14 - INDEPENDENT AGENCIES › Subtitle 03 - COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS › Chapter 14.03.02 - Anti-Discrimination Relating to Persons with Disabilities › Section 14.03.02.10 - Reasonable Accommodation in Public Accommodations

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. An owner, operator, manager, or lessor of
				a place of public accommodation, shall make a reasonable accommodation for an
				individual with a disability.
B.
				For the purposes of this section, reasonable accommodation means to make a
				building or facility suitable for access, use, and patronage by an individual
				with a disability without danger to the individual's health or safety, and
				without undue hardship or expense to the business, or other activity making
				such an accommodation.
C. Examples
				of a reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to:
(1) Providing at least one accessible route
				consisting of a continuous unobstructed path connecting all accessible elements
				and spaces of a building or facility which shall include compliance with:
(a) ADAAG § 4.6, parking and passenger
				loading zones, or other reasonable number of accessible parking spaces and
				passenger loading zones for individuals with physical disabilities;
(b) ADAAG § 4.7, curb ramps, or other
				curb ramps or sloped areas in sidewalks, paths, and entrances to buildings or
				facilities;
(c) ADAAG § 4.14,
				entrances, and § 4.3, accessible route, or other accessible primary public
				entrance on at least the ground floor of the building or facility which allows
				safe and unobstructed passage by an individual using a wheelchair, which may be
				a service entrance only if the service entrance is the sole entrance for
				everyone;
(d) ADAAG § 4.13,
				doors, or other doorways at the entrance and leading to each accessible space
				of sufficient clear width, and maneuvering clearances to allow safe and
				unobstructed passage by an individual using a wheelchair;
(e) ADAAG § 4.2, space allowance and
				reach ranges, § 4.3, accessible route, § 4.4, protruding objects, and
				§ 4.5, ground and floor surfaces, or other walks, halls, corridors,
				passageways, aisles, and other spaces of sufficient clear width and maneuvering
				clearances, level grading with firm, stable, slip-resistant surfaces, and
				sufficient head room, to allow safe and unobstructed passage by an individual
				using a wheelchair;
(f) Where
				necessary to provide safe access to floor spaces of higher or lower levels,
				ADAAG § 4.8, ramps, or the installation of a ramp;
(g) Where necessary to provide access over
				changes in floor levels too great for a ramp, or to provide vertical access to
				upper or lower floors, ADAAG § 4.10, elevators, § 4.11, platform
				lifts, or both, or the installation of a wheelchair lift or elevator;
(h) ADAAG § 4.3.10, egress, or §
				4.3.11, areas of rescue assistance, or other accessible means of egress for
				emergencies, with the doors of sufficient clear width and maneuvering
				clearances to allow safe and unobstructed passage by an individual using a
				wheelchair, or an accessible area of rescue assistance or approved
				alternative;