Code of Alabama - Title 21: Handicapped Persons - Chapter 4 - Accessibility to and Use of Public Buildings and Facilities by Physically Handicapped Persons

• Article 1 Accessibility Generally.
• Section 21-4-1 Legislative intent
  (a) This article is concerned with nonambulatory disabilities, semiambulatory disabilities, sight disabilities, hearing disabilities, disabilities of incoordination, and aging. (b) It is intended to make...
• Section 21-4-2 Definitions
  For the purposes of this article the following terms shall have the meanings as set forth in this section: (1) NONAMBULATORY DISABILITIES. Impairments that, regardless...
• Section 21-4-3 Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Promulgation
  The State Fire Marshal shall prescribe and publish standards and specifications for the buildings, premises, and facilities to which this article applies, which will make...
• Section 21-4-4 Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Applicability
  (a) The standards and specifications prescribed by the fire marshal, as authorized in this article, shall apply to all buildings and facilities used by the...
• Section 21-4-5 Standards and specifications for public buildings and facilities - Construction and interpretation; waivers
  (a) The State Fire Marshal and the Division of Construction Management of the Department of Finance are each hereby authorized to construe and interpret the...
• Section 21-4-6 Review of architectural plans and specifications; reviewing authorities authorized to adopt additional rules and regulations
  (a) The responsibility for reviewing architectural plans and specifications for buildings to which this article applies shall be as follows: (1) Where state school funds...
• Section 21-4-7 Enforcement of article; authority of Fire Marshal to inspect buildings; orders to conform with standards and specifications
  The State Fire Marshal is charged with the duty of enforcing standards and specifications prescribed as authorized in Section 21-4-3. For such purpose, he shall...
• Article 2 Accessibility of Registration and Polling Places.
• Section 21-4-20 Legislative intent
  It is the intention of the Legislature in enacting this article to promote the fundamental right to vote by requiring registration and polling places for...
• Section 21-4-21 Definitions
  As used in this article, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning, the following terms shall have meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1)...
• Section 21-4-22 Promulgation of guidelines
  (a) The Attorney General of this state, in consultation with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, and in accordance with Section 553...
• Section 21-4-23 Registration and voting aids
  (a) The appropriate election officials in the several counties of this state shall make available registration and voting aids for handicapped and elderly individuals in...
• Section 21-4-24 Actions for injunctive relief to enforce article
  (a) Whenever the Attorney General of this state has reason to believe that (1) A registration or polling place does not comply with the standards...

Last modified: May 3, 2021