Sec. 29-270a. Automatic doors for the physically disabled in certain shopping malls or retail businesses.
Sec. 29-270a. Automatic doors for the physically disabled in certain shopping
malls or retail businesses. The owner of any enclosed shopping mall or retail business
with more than fifty thousand square feet of floor space, shall install, in at least one of
the primary entrances, doors that are automatically activated to provide access to persons
with physical disabilities, provided the State Building Inspector may, with the concurrence of the director of the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, grant an exemption from such requirement where strict compliance would entail
practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship. Nothing in this section shall require the
installation of an automatically activated door in a primary entrance which is open and
unobstructed by any door during the hours the retail business is open to the public.
(P.A. 87-54; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 61, 121.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 changed reference from "advocacy for the handicapped and developmentally disabled"
to "advocacy for persons with disabilities", effective June 24, 1998.