CopyCited 10 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 13551, 1990 WL 102850
...As support for the applicability of his requested charges 16 and 12A, the appellant relies upon certain Florida statutes requiring newly constructed or renovated public buildings intended for use by the general public to meet the needs of the physically handicapped. See §§ 553.46-553.49, Fla.Stat. (1985); and § 255.21, Fla....
...determined that the statutes at issue and the standards promulgated thereunder did not encompass buildings and portions of buildings used solely for the purpose of housing inmates. In so concluding, the court reasoned that the language contained in section 255.21(1), which called for its applicability to “[a]ny building or facility intended for use by the general public,” when read in pari materia with the language employed in section 553.-48(2), which provided for its applicability to “[a]ll new buildings as defined in this part ......
...e West Unit were required to comply with the handicapped accessibility laws." Id. The record indeed reflects that Department of Corrections employees undertook some renovation of Dorm 6 of the West Unit at UCI after the threshold date established in § 255.21....
CopyCited 1 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 93 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 1045, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2575, 2004 WL 324498
Congress enacted 40 U.S.C. § 3112(b), previously § 255,[21] to create "a definite method of acceptance of
CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1978).
Published | Florida Attorney General Reports
...in all space obtained under lease? SUMMARY: As a condition precedent to approving an agency's proposed new lease wherein the state leases a portion of a building intended for use by the general public, the Department of General Services, pursuant to s. 255.21 (1), F....
...providing special facilities for the physically disabled in that portion of the building covered under the lease. For the purposes of this section, a renewal of an expired lease or a renegotiated or renewed lease is to be categorized as a new lease. Section 255.21 (1), F....
...(Emphasis supplied.) The title to Ch. 72-281 , Laws of Florida, states that the purpose of the act relating to the physically handicapped is to require that certain public buildings afford facilities for the physically handicapped. Of the six sentences in s. 255.21 (1), the words `lease' or `lessee' appear only in the first and last sentences....
...nd specifications established by the Department of General Services. Further, all such new leaseholds operated by state agencies as lessees must comply with such standards and specifications. The last sentence, however, excepts from the operation of s. 255.21 (1) all buildings or facilities existing on October 1, 1973, even if intended for the use of and being used by the general public; but, if any such building or facility so accepted is newly leased and operated as a lessee by the agencies of...
...e of an existing building (either pre-1973 or post-1973), or any part or portion thereof, the leased portion of such building or facility must comply with the standards and specifications established by the Department of General Services pursuant to s. 255.21 , F. S., if such leased portion is intended for use of the general public or the affected state agency must obtain a modification or waiver of the regulations promulgated by the department pursuant to s. 255.21 (2), F....
