Joey For the Historical Preservation Part III for April 21, 2024 per ADA 2010 and elevator is required for professional office center.
§36.404 Alterations: Elevator exemption
(a) This section does not require the installation of an elevator in an altered facility that is less than three stories or has less
than 3,000 square feet per story, except with respect to any facility that houses a shopping center, a shopping mall, the
professional office of a health care provider, a terminal, depot, or other station used for specified public transportation, or an
airport passenger terminal.
(1) For the purposes of this section, professional office of a health care provider means a location where a person or entity
regulated by a State to provide professional services related to the physical or mental health of an individual makes such
services available to the public. The facility that houses a professional office of a health care provider only includes floor
levels housing by at least one health care provider, or any floor level designed or intended for use by at least one health care
provider.
(2) For the purposes of this section, shopping center or shopping mall means –
(i) A building housing five or more sales or rental establishments; or
(ii) A series of buildings on a common site, connected by a common pedestrian access route above or below the ground
floor, that is either under common ownership or common control or developed either as one project or as a series of related
projects, housing five or more sales or rental establishments. For purposes of this section, places of public accommodation
of the types listed in paragraph (5) of the definition of place of public accommodation in § 36.104 are considered sales or
rental establishments. The facility housing a “shopping center or shopping mall” only includes floor levels housing at least
one sales or rental establishment, or any floor level designed or intended for use by at least one sales or rental establishment.
(b) The exemption provided in paragraph (a) of this section does not obviate or limit in any way the obligation to comply
with the other accessibility requirements established in this subpart. For example, alterations to floors above or below the
accessible ground floor must be accessible regardless of whether the altered facility has an elevator
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