42 U.S.C. § 4152 — Standards for design, construction, and alteration of buildings; Administrator of General Services
submitted 58 years ago by Pub. L. 90-480 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 73 words · no verdicts yet
The Administrator of General Services must set building standards, after consulting the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The standards must make public buildings accessible to physically handicapped people whenever possible, subject to the stated exclusions.
The Administrator* of General Services, after consulting the Secretary* of Health and Human Services, must prescribe standards for designing, building*, and altering buildings. The standards do not cover residential structures subject to this chapter or Department of Defense buildings, structures, and facilities and Postal Service buildings, structures, and facilities that are subject to this chapter. Whenever possible, the standards must ensure that physically handicapped people can readily access and use the buildings. This section does not define “physically handicapped” or “readily.”
The Administrator* of General Services, in consultation with the Secretary* of Health and Human Services, shall prescribe standards for the design, construction, and alteration of buildings (other than residential structures subject to this chapter and buildings, structures, and facilities of the Department of Defense and of the United States Postal Service subject to this chapter) to insure whenever possible that physically handicapped persons will have ready access to, and use of, such buildings.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 90–480, § 2, Aug. 12, 1968, 82 Stat. 719; Pub. L. 94–541, title II, § 201(2), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2507; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)
- 1968Enacted · Pub. L. 90-480 · 82 Stat. 719
- 1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-541 · 90 Stat. 2507
- 1979Amended · Pub. L. 96-88 · 93 Stat. 695
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