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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="7-902" title_number="7" title_name="Individuals With Disabilities" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Telecommunications Devices and Distribution of Accessible Information for Disabled Individuals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In accordance with the State budget and § 7–806 of this title, the Department, in consultation with the Board, shall establish and administer a program:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to provide specialized customer telephone equipment to eligible program participants; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>to provide reimbursement of costs under § 7–906 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “shopping facility” means an outdoor or indoor retail facility with a common pedestrian area housing more than five sales or rental establishments in which a majority of the tenants have a main entrance from the common pedestrian area.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection applies to a shopping facility that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>provides a total number of four or more public pay telephones at the facility of which at least one is located in the common pedestrian area; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is larger than 500,000 square feet.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In accordance with the standards and regulations established by the Department, the owner, operator, manager, or other person having control of a shopping facility shall acquire and install at least one specialized communications device designed to enable customers with hearing or speech disabilities to access a telephone or wireless service providers network.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
