I have to live with my limitations!!
"Costs to 7 million affected businesses plus state and local government agencies would total $23 billion"
And the day they start TAKING ALL THE WAR LOOT and using it for GOOD, then you can get back to me, 'kay?!?!
"New disability regulations raise concern; The proposals address a wide range of facilities" by Stephanie S. Garlow, Associated Press | July 25, 2008
WASHINGTON - Miniature golf courses are among the millions of businesses and other public facilities that would be affected by proposed regulatory changes under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the milestone 1990 civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.
The proposed regulations address a wide range of facilities - including access to courthouses, drinking fountains, amusement park rides, stadium and theater seating, fishing piers, boat slips, and bowling lanes - and establish specific requirements for qualifying accessible designs. For miniature golf courses, 50 percent of the holes would have to be accessible for players in wheelchairs.
The 1,000 pages of regulations proposed by the Justice Department are drawing intense scrutiny from businesses that foresee a financial drain and disability rights advocates who say they are long overdue and don't go far enough. Both groups say they want more clarity.
Costs to 7 million affected businesses plus state and local government agencies would total $23 billion over 40 years, according to the Justice Department. But they would also realize billions from being more accessible to disabled customers. The Census Bureau says there are more than 51 million disabled Americans, representing 18 percent of the population.
And the WARS are just MAKING THINGS WORSE!
Another UNSEEN COST of the OCCUPATIONS!!!!
Final regulations could take effect next year, after a period for public comment.
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