101.13 Physically disabled persons; place of employment and public building requirements.

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(1)In this section, “access” means the physical characteristics of a place which allow persons with functional limitations caused by impairments of sight, hearing, coordination or perception or persons with semiambulatory or nonambulatory disabilities to enter, circulate within and leave a place of employment or public building and to use the public toilet facilities and passenger elevators in the place of employment or public building without assistance.

(a)Except as provided in par.

(b), the department shall by rule provide minimum requirements to facilitate the use of public buildings and places of employment by physically disabled persons where traffic might reasonably be expected by such persons.

(b)The department may not promulgate a rule requiring that a unisex toilet room be provided in any public building or place of employment.

(a)Any place of employment or public building, the initial construction of which is commenced after July 1, 1970, but prior to May 27, 1976, shall be so designed and constructed as to provide reasonable means of ingress and egress by the physically disabled with the exception of:

1. Apartment houses with less than 20 units, row houses and rooming houses;

2. Convents and monasteries;

3. Jails or other places of detention;

4. Garages, hangars and boathouses;

5. All buildings classified as hazardous occupancies;

6. Warehouses;