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k. Religious Facilities
The sanctuary areas, raised platforms, choir rooms, choir lofts, performing areas, assembly areas,
classrooms and offices and sanitary facilities of religious facilities must be accessible and must provide
wheelchair seating spaces. Hardship exceptions can be granted where equivalent facilitation is provided.
(CBC ' 1104B.6.)
l. Office Buildings and Personal and Public Service Facilities
Facilities covered by these regulations include all those used by the public as customers, clients, or
visitors, or facilities which may be places of employment. Included are all types of business and
professional offices, including insurance, real estate and attorneys' offices, all types of sales establishments,
and all personal and public service facilities, including banks, laundromats, hospitals, police stations,
courtrooms, fire stations, automated teller machines, point of sale machines, and vending machines. (CBC
'' 1105B et seq.; 1109B et seq.; 1117B.7 et seq.; and 1126B; Donald v. Sacramento Valley Bank (1989)
209 Cal.App.3d 1183.)
In business and professional offices, areas to be made accessible include client and visitor areas,
toilet facilities, conference rooms, and employee work areas. (CBC ' 1105B.3 et seq.) In sales
establishments, sales and display areas must be accessible, as well as employee work areas and some checkout
stations. Where fitting or dressing rooms are provided, at least one must be accessible. (CBC '
1110B.1 et seq.) Finally, with certain exceptions, client and visitor areas and employee work areas must be
accessible in personal and public service facilities. Factories and warehouses must also comply with broad
accessibility requirements. (CBC '' 1105.4.4. et seq. and 1107B et seq.)
m. Educational and Library Facilities
In educational facilities, laboratory rooms must provide a certain number of work stations usable
by students with physical disabilities, and a certain percentage of study carrels and teaching facility cubicles
must be accessible. General use areas in libraries must be accessible, and open book stacks must allow
wheelchair access to the aisle. (CBC ' 1106B.1 et seq.)
n. Hotels, Motels, and Publicly-Funded Living Accommodations
A certain number of guest rooms in private lodging facilities must be accessible, including sanitary
facilities. Public rooms and recreational facilities in private lodging must also comply with certain
accessibility requirements. Some publicly-funded living accommodations must meet accessibility
requirements although arguably they must be publicly-funded and open to the general public. (CBC '
111B.1 et seq.; Berkeley Center for Independent Living v. Coyle (1996)
42 Cal.App.4th 874.)
o. Courtrooms
Individuals with hearing impairments are entitled to the use of assistive listening systems or
computer-aided transcription equipment to assist their participation in any civil or criminal court
proceeding, alternate dispute resolution or public agency administrative hearing, if they provide at least five
days' notice. Each county is required to have at least one portable listening device for use by the
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