42 U.S.C. § 4153
Standards for design, construction, and alteration of buildings; Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
United States · Title 42 — THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE · Status: effective
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The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall prescribe standards for the design, construction, and alteration of buildings which are residential structures subject to this chapter to insure whenever possible that physically handicapped persons will have ready access to, and use of, such buildings.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959 in order to preserve buildings of historical or architectural significance through their use for Federal public building purposes, and to amend the Act of August 12, 1968, relating to the accessibility of certain buildings to the physically handicapped.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to establish a Department of Education, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally