(410 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 3712)
Sec. 2. Statement of Findings and Purpose. The General Assembly finds that:
(a) Public facilities and multi-story housing units which contain environmental barriers create a serious threat to the safety and welfare of all members of society both in normal conditions and in the event of fire, panic and other emergency.
(b) Environmentally limited persons are often denied access to and use of public facilities and multi-story housing units due to environmental barriers which prevent them from exercising many of their rights and privileges as citizens.
(c) The integration of environmentally limited persons into the mainstream of society furthers the goals and policies of this State to assure the right of all persons to live and work as independently as possible and to participate in the life of the community as fully as possible.
Therefore, eliminating environmental barriers is an object of serious public concern. This Act shall be liberally construed toward that end.
(Source: P.A. 84-948.)
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