24 CFR 8.20

§ 8.20 General requirement concerning program accessibility.

United States · 24 CFR — Housing and Urban Development · Status: effective

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Citation: 24 CFR 8.20, § 8.20 General requirement concerning program accessibility, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/97918
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Except as otherwise provided in §§ 8.21(c)(1), 8.24(a), 8.25, and 8.31, no qualified individual with handicaps shall, because a recipient's facilities are inaccessible to or unusable by individuals with handicaps, be denied the benefits of, be excluded from participation in, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance.

Legislative history

This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.