Travel Problems of the Handicapped: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, December 5, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 120 páginas |
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Página 89 - person" means any person who (i) has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person's major life activities, (ii) has a record of such impairment, or (iii) is regarded as having such an impairment.
Página 85 - places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons. Nothing in this
Página 88 - Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights granted by this Act, or that any group of persons has been denied any of the rights granted by this Act, and such denial raises an issue of general public importance,
Página 88 - relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order against the person or persons responsible for such pattern or practice or denial of rights, as
Página 88 - by filing with it a complaint setting forth the facts and requesting such relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order against the person or persons responsible for such pattern or practice
Página 89 - blind person" means a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye, with corrective lenses, as measured by the Snellen test, or
Página 89 - central visual acuity greater than 20/200 but with a limitation in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle not greater than twenty
Página 22 - A free national library program of braille and recorded materials for blind and physically handicapped persons is administered by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped which is a part of the Library of Congress.
Página 89 - field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle not greater than twenty degrees;
Página 88 - Act, or that any group of persons has been denied any of the rights granted by this Act, and such denial raises an issue of general public