2011 Connecticut Code
Title 29 Public Safety and State Police
Chapter 541 Building, Fire and Demolition Codes. Fire Marshals and Fire Hazards. Safety of Public and Other Structures
Sec. 29-270a. Automatic doors for the physically disabled in certain shopping malls or retail businesses.

      Sec. 29-270a. Automatic doors for the physically disabled in certain shopping malls or retail businesses. The owner of any enclosed shopping mall or retail business with more than fifty thousand square feet of floor space, shall install, in at least one of the primary entrances, doors that are automatically activated to provide access to persons with physical disabilities, provided the State Building Inspector may, with the concurrence of the director of the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities, grant an exemption from such requirement where strict compliance would entail practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship. Nothing in this section shall require the installation of an automatically activated door in a primary entrance which is open and unobstructed by any door during the hours the retail business is open to the public.

      (P.A. 87-54; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 61, 121.)

      History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 changed reference from "advocacy for the handicapped and developmentally disabled" to "advocacy for persons with disabilities", effective June 24, 1998.