Sections
18 entriesSection 54Gives individuals with disabilities or medical conditions the same right as everyone else to the full and free use of streets, highways,…Section 54.1Entitles people with disabilities to full and equal access to transportation, hotels, private schools, other public accommodations, and housing offered for rent…Section 54.2Gives every individual with a disability the right to bring a guide, signal, or service dog into the places listed in Section…Section 54.25Bars hotels, restaurants, and public transportation from refusing service or charging extra fees or deposits for a canine unit dog or search…Section 54.27Requires an attorney who sends an accessibility prelitigation letter to a school district or other education entity to include a State Bar…Section 54.3Makes anyone who denies or interferes with a disabled person's access to public facilities liable for actual damages, up to triple damages…Section 54.4Gives a blind or visually impaired pedestrian the same rights and privileges as anyone else in the places, accommodations, and conveyances covered…Section 54.5Requires the Governor each year to publicly proclaim October 15 as White Cane Safety Day and to issue a proclamation that comments…Section 54.6Defines visually impaired for this part as including blindness, meaning central visual acuity no better than 20/200 in the better eye with…Section 54.7Exempts zoos and wild animal parks from letting guide, signal, or service dogs into areas where park animals are not separated from…Section 54.8Requires any court, alternative dispute resolution, or agency hearing to provide a working assistive listening system or computer-aided transcription system to a…Section 54.9Requires manufacturers and distributors of touch-screen self-service check-in devices used at hotels or passenger transportation facilities to offer, on and after January…Section 55Allows any person aggrieved or potentially aggrieved by a violation of Section 54 or 54.1, Government Code Chapter 7 beginning at Section…Section 55.1Allows a district attorney, a city attorney, the Attorney General, or the Department of Rehabilitation acting through the Attorney General to sue…Section 55.2Requires every party in a California appellate proceeding that raises a violation or interpretation of Sections 54 through 54.3 to serve its…Section 55.3Requires an attorney who sends a demand letter or complaint over a construction-related accessibility claim to attach a written advisory of the…Section 55.31Requires a demand letter alleging a construction-related accessibility claim to identify each access barrier, its location, and how it blocked or deterred…Section 55.32Requires an attorney sending an accessibility demand letter to include a State Bar license number and, within five business days, file copies…