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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="20-306" title_number="20" title_name="Human Relations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Discrimination in Places of Public Accommodation">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Closed captioning” means a transcript or dialog of the audio portion of a television program that is displayed on a television receiver screen when the user activates the feature.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Closed–captioning television receiver” means a receiver of television programming that has the ability to display closed captioning, including a television, digital set top box, and any other technology capable of displaying closed captioning.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Closed movie captioning” means the written display of the dialog and certain nonspeech information of a motion picture that is generally delivered to individual patrons on a captioning device in a motion picture house.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Open movie captioning” means a transcript or dialog of the audio portion of a motion picture that is displayed on a motion picture screen that cannot be turned off by a viewer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>“Public area” means a part of a place of public accommodation that is open to the general public.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>“Regular hours” means the hours of any day in which a place of public accommodation is open to members of the general public.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On request, a place of public accommodation may not fail to keep closed captioning activated on any closed–captioning television receiver that is in use during regular hours in any public area.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection does not require a place of public accommodation to make closed captioning available in a public area of the place of public accommodation if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>no television receiver of any kind is available in the public area; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the only public television receiver available in the public area is not a closed–captioning television receiver.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A place of public accommodation that is a motion picture house shall provide access to fully operational and well–maintained closed movie captioning technology for the general public for each screening of a motion picture that is produced and available with closed movie captioning as required by Title III of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>This paragraph does not apply to motion pictures screened fewer than five times from Friday through Thursday in a 7–day period in the motion picture house.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>This paragraph applies only to the first 3 weeks after a motion picture premieres in the motion picture house.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>If a motion picture is produced and available to motion picture houses with open movie captioning, a place of public accommodation that controls, operates, owns, or leases a motion picture house with eight or more screens in the State shall provide open movie captioning for at least two screenings for each motion picture it screens each week.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Beginning 3 weeks after a motion picture premieres, a place of accommodation that controls, operates, owns, or leases a motion picture house with eight or more screens in the State may provide open movie captioning with reasonable notice.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
