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Title

09

:
Commerce and Trade






Chapter

139

:
DISCRIMINATION; PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS; RENTAL AND SALE OF REAL ESTATE











 

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4500. Legislative intent

(a) The

provisions of this chapter establishing legal standards, duties and

requirements with respect to persons with disabilities in places of public

accommodation as defined herein, except those provisions relating to remedies,

are intended to implement and to be construed so as to be consistent with the

Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. and rules adopted

thereunder, and are not intended to impose additional or higher standards,

duties, or requirements than that act.

(b) Subsections

4502(b) and (c) of this title shall not be construed to create or impose on

governmental entities additional or higher standards, duties, or requirements

than that imposed by Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Added

1991, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)