LD 1196
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race or color, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental
disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, any of the
accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, services or
privileges of public accommodation, or in any manner discriminate
against any person in the price, terms or conditions upon which
access to accommodation, advantages, facilities, goods, services
and privileges may depend.

 
For purposes of this subsection, unlawful discrimination also
includes, but is not limited to:

 
A. The imposition or application of eligibility criteria
that screen out or tend to screen out an individual with a
disability or any class of individuals with disabilities
from fully and equally enjoying any goods, services,
facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations, unless
the criteria can be shown to be necessary for the provision
of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages
or accommodations being offered;

 
B. A failure to make reasonable modifications in policies,
practices or procedures, when modifications are necessary to
afford the goods, services, facilities, privileges,
advantages or accommodations to individuals with
disabilities, unless, in the case of a private entity, the
private entity can demonstrate that making the modifications
would fundamentally alter the nature of the goods, services,
facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations;

 
C. A failure to take steps that may be necessary to ensure
that no individual with a disability is excluded, denied
services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than
other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids
and services, unless, in the case of a private entity, the
private entity can demonstrate that taking those steps would
fundamentally alter the nature of the good, service,
facility, privilege, advantage or accommodation being
offered or would result in an undue burden;

 
D. A private entity's failure to remove architectural
barriers and communication barriers that are structural in
nature in existing facilities and transportation barriers in
existing vehicles and rail passenger cars used by an
establishment for transporting individuals, not including
barriers that can be removed only through the retrofitting
of vehicles or rail passenger cars by the installation of a
hydraulic or other lift, where the removal is readily
achievable;


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