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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".10" citation="COMAR 14.03.02.10" title_num="14" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="02" heading="Reasonable Accommodation in Public Accommodations.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An owner, operator, manager, or lessor of a place of public accommodation, shall make a reasonable accommodation for an individual with a disability.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>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.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Examples of a reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>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:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>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;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>ADAAG §4.7, curb ramps, or other curb ramps or sloped areas in sidewalks, paths, and entrances to buildings or facilities;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>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;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>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;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>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;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Where necessary to provide safe access to floor spaces of higher or lower levels, ADAAG §4.8, ramps, or the installation of a ramp;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>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;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>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;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If the building or facility has public toilet facilities, compliance with ADAAG §4.22, toilet rooms, §4.16, water closets, §4.17, toilet stalls, §4.18, urinals, and §4.19, lavatories, or otherwise providing a facility with at least one water closet, lavatory and toilet stall, with grab bars, on an accessible route, and with sufficient clear doorway and floor space to accommodate a person using a wheelchair;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>If the building or facility has a public bathroom, bathing facility, shower room, or any of these, compliance with ADAAG §4.23, bathrooms, bathing facilities, and shower rooms, or otherwise providing a facility with grab bars, on an accessible route, and with sufficient clear doorway and floor space to accommodate a person using a wheelchair;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>If the building or facility has a public drinking fountain or water cooler, compliance with ADAAG §4.15, drinking fountains and water coolers, or otherwise providing at least one on accessible route with sufficient clear knee, or floor space, or both, at a height which allows an individual in a wheelchair to approach and use the drinking fountain or water cooler;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>If the building or facility has fixed or built-in storage facilities such as cabinets, shelves, closets, or drawers in accessible spaces, compliance with ADAAG §4.25, storage, or providing at least one of each type on an accessible route with sufficient clear floor space, and at a height which allows an individual in a wheelchair to approach and use the storage facility;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>If the building or facility has fixed or built-in seating, tables or counters in accessible public or common use areas, compliance with ADAAG §4.32, fixed or built-in seating and tables, or otherwise providing a reasonable number of seats, tables or counters on an accessible route with sufficient clear floor space and knee clearances, and at a height which allows an individual in a wheelchair to approach and use them;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>If the building or facility is a place of assembly with fixed seating, compliance with ADAAG §4.33, assembly areas, or otherwise providing a reasonable number of wheelchair seating locations on an accessible route with sufficient clear floor space and level surface for an individual in a wheelchair to comfortably view the performing areas with lines of sight comparable to those for members of the general public;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Compliance with ADAAG §4.27, controls and operating mechanisms, or otherwise providing controls and operating mechanisms such as light switches and dispenser controls on an accessible route with sufficient clear floor space, and at a height which allows an individual in a wheelchair to approach and use the control or mechanism with limited force from one hand;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>If the building or facility has an emergency warning system, compliance with ADAAG §4.28, alarms, or otherwise installing a system with both audible and visual alarms of sufficient intensity, and at locations from which they will be heard or seen by individuals with sensory impairments;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Compliance with ADAAG §4.29, detectable warnings, or otherwise installing detectable warnings on pedestrian walking surfaces that cross or adjoin vehicular ways, which are not separated by curbs, railings, or other elements; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>In addition to the above actions, taking other steps to remove architectural and communication barriers and to facilitate physical access to goods and services, including, but not limited to, the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Repositioning shelves;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Rearranging tables, chairs, vending machines, display racks, and other furniture;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Repositioning telephones;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Installing flashing alarm lights or visual alarms;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Adding raised markings on elevator control buttons;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Providing Brailled and raised character signage;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Waiving a no-pet requirement to allow the use of a service animal;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Maintaining in operable working condition those features of facilities and equipment that are required to be readily accessible to, and usable by an individual with a disability, except an owner, operator, manager, or lessor of a place of public accommodation may temporarily fail to have its facilities or equipment accessible due to short term maintenance or repair;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>Modifying policies, practices and procedures to afford goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations to an individual with a disability; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(j)">
        <text>Providing an individual with a disability integrated settings.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>