[Ohio-talk] FW: reference request: ADA and right to refuse accommodation

[Cheryl Fischer]

Below Anna Kresmer from the Jernigan Institute refers us to several Monitor
articles concerning the NFB and the adoption of the ADA in addition to
giving us the reference to the part of the ADA about right to refuse an
accommodation.

 

Cheryl

From: Kresmer, Anna [mailto:AKresmer at nfb.org] 
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 3:41 PM
To: c16a19f at sbcglobal.net
Subject: reference request: ADA and right to refuse accommodation

 

Dear Cheryl,

 

Thank you for contacting the Jacobus tenBroek Library at the National
Federation of the Blind. The section of the ADA concerning the right to
refuse accommodation, which was lobbied for by the NFB to gain our support
of the legislation, can be found in the language of the ADA in Subchapter IV
Miscellaneous Provisions, Sec. 12201. Construction. [Section 501] (d)
Accommodations and services. This is often referred to as Section 501(d) for
short. 

 

The exact wording of 501(d) in the ADA is:

 

(d) Accommodations and services

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require an individual with a
disability to accept an accommodation, aid, service, opportunity, or benefit
which such individual chooses not to accept.

 

You can find the wording of the ADA online at
http://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm. 

 

I also found a couple of articles in the Braille Monitor, which might be
useful to you:

.         REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, by Kenneth
Jernigan, February 1990.
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm90/brlm9002.htm#8

.         Thanks, But No Thanks, by Jim Marks, July, 2000.
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm00/bm0007/bm000703.htm 

.         Nipping Discrimination in the Bud: My Brooklyn Tabernacle
Adventure, by Dennis Farro, February 2010.
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm10/bm1002/bm100208.htm  

 

Cordially,

Anna

 

Anna K. Kresmer, MSLS

Archivist

Jacobus tenBroek Library

National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute

200 East Wells Street 

at Jernigan Place

Baltimore, MD 21230

Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2310

Email: akresmer at nfb.org

 

The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
blindness is not what holds you back.

 

Make a gift <https://nfb.org/make-gift>  to the National Federation of the
Blind and help ensure all blind Americans live the lives they want.