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National ADA Accessibility Compliance Network (NADAACN) is a members-based company which promotes public access for the disabled community, one public facility at a time, by educating business owners on the ADA Title III “readily achievable” standards and modifications, in an effort at attempting to help businesses from lawsuits.
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July 26, 2010 marked 20 years since President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The Americans with Disabilities Act, often referred to as the ADA, is a landmark piece of legislation whose main purpose is to provide protection from discrimination to individuals with disabilities and reduce or eliminate many of the barriers that those with disabilities face on a day-to-day basis.
Title III of the ADA - The public accommodations requirement: provides that “No individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to) or operates a place of public accommodation. Title III does not require any advance notice to a business of the intent to file suit for alleged violations. Plaintiffs in Title III cases do not receive damages as a result of any proven violation, but they may be entitled to an injunction requiring modification to the facility plus the plaintiff’s attorney’s fees. This means that the attorney’s fee clock begins to run immediately, before the business has an opportunity to correct the alleged violations.
Do both a landlord who leases space in a building to a tenant and the tenant who operates a place of public accommodation have responsibilities under the ADA? Both the landlord and the tenant are public accommodations and have full responsibility for complying with all ADA title III requirements applicable to that place of public accommodation. The title III regulation permits the landlord and the tenant to allocate responsibility, in the lease, for complying with particular provisions of the regulation. However, any allocation made in a lease or other contract is only effective as between the parties, and both landlord and tenant remain fully liable for compliance with all provisions of the ADA relating to that place of public accommodation.
NADAACN provides you with tools to conduct an initial analysis of your facility, by providing you with an ADA checklist of the “readily achievable” modifications needed to comply with the ADA.
Once you acknowledge and become compliant under the ADA “readily achievable” modifications standards, and once you pay your yearly NADAACN membership dues, you will receive the NADAACN decal which is to be placed on your business store front and business marketing materials. Your business will appear on the National ADAACN website (under your appropriate state). As a member of NADAACN individuals with disabilities will be able to locate ADA friendly business and anonymously report encounters of violations directly to our national call center. When a call is received at our National Call Center we will contact your business and advise you of your customers complaint, giving you the opportunity to correct the problem, in an effort to promote constant awareness and continuous accessibility for the disabled community. |
