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Paragraph (d)(2)(ii) has been modified accordingly.
Some commenters suggested that other types of facilities (e.g.,
educational facilities, libraries, museums, commercial facilities, and
social service facilities) should be included in the category of
nonexempt facilities. The Department has not found adequate
justification for including any other types of facilities in the
nonexempt category at this time.
Section 36.401(d)(2) establishes the operative requirements
concerning the elevator exemption and its application to shopping
centers and malls, professional offices of health care providers,
transit stations, and airport passenger terminals. Under the rule's
framework, it is necessary first to determine if a new facility
(including one or more buildings) houses places of public accommodation
or commercial facilities that are in the categories for which elevators
are required. If so, and the facility is a shopping center or shopping
mall, or a professional office of a health care provider, then any area
housing such an office or a sales or rental establishment or the
professional office of a health care provider is not entitled to the
elevator exemption.
The following examples illustrate the application of these
principles:
1. A shopping mall has an upper and a lower level. There are two
anchor stores (in this case, major department stores at either end
of the mall, both with exterior entrances and an entrance on each level
from the common area). In addition, there are 30 stores (sales or rental
establishments) on the upper level, all of which have entrances from a
common central area. There are 30 stores on the lower level, all of
which have entrances from a common central area. According to the rule,
elevator access must be provided to each store and to each level of the
anchor stores. This requirement could be satisfied with respect to the
60 stores through elevators connecting the two pedestrian levels,
provided that an individual could travel from the elevator to any other
point on that level (i.e., into any store through a common pedestrian
area) on an accessible path.
(Code of Federal Regulations. Title 28, Volume 1. TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION. CHAPTER
I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. PART 36_NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY BY PUBLIC
ACCOMMODATIONS AND IN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES CITE: 28CFR36
)