Table 11.1 - Miscellaneous Amendments
4.1.1 Application

Section:  General Exceptions
Requirement:  Accessibility is not required to or in raised structures used solely for refereeing, judging, or scoring
sport; water slides; animal containment areas not for public use; or raised boxing or wrestling rings.   
   
4.1.2 Accessible Sites and Exterior Facilities:  New Construction
4.1.3 Accessible Buildings: New Construction

Section:  Court Sports
Requirement:  Accessible route must directly connect both sides of court.

Section:  Area of Sport Activity
Requirement:  Protruding objects and ground and floor surface provisions do not apply within area of sport activity.

Section:  Animal Containment Areas
Requirement:  Animal containment areas designed and constructed for public use are not required to provide stable,
firm, and slip resistant ground or floor surfaces or to comply with change in level provisions.

Section:  Team or Player Seating Areas
Requirement:  Lifts permitted to provide access to team or player seating areas serving an area of sport activity. 
Team or player seating areas with fixed seats must contain number of wheelchair spaces required by 4.1.3(19)(a) and
spaces must comply with 4.33.  Choice of admission price and comparable sight lines provisions do not apply. 
Requirements do not apply to team or player seating areas serving bowling lanes not required to be accessible.

Section:  Lockers
Requirement:  Where lockers are provided in accessible spaces, at least 5% of each type of locker must comply with
4.25.

Section:  Exercise Machines
Requirement:  Controls and operating mechanisms provisions do not apply to exercise equipment.

Section:  Dressing, Fitting, and Locker Rooms
Requirement:  Dressing, fitting, and locker rooms must comply with 4.35.  Where provided in a cluster, at least 5%
of rooms for each type of use in each cluster must comply with 4.35.

Section:  Saunas and Steam Rooms
Requirement:  Saunas and steam rooms must comply with 4.36.  Where provided in a cluster, at least 5% of rooms
for each type of use in each cluster must comply with 4.36.


4.35 Dressing, Fitting, and Locker Rooms

Section:  Bench
Requirement:  Bench complying with 4.37 must be provided within room.

4.36 Saunas and Steam Rooms

Section:  Maneuvering Space
Requirement:  Maneuvering space complying with 4.2.3 must be provided within room.  Readily removable seats
permitted to obstruct the space.

Section:  Bench
Requirement:  Where seating is provided, at least one bench complying with 4.37 must be provided.

Section:  Door Swing
Requirement:  Doors prohibited from swinging into any part of the clear floor or ground space required at a bench
complying with 4.37.

4.37 Benches

Section:  Clear Floor or Ground Space
Requirement:  Clear floor or ground space complying with 4.2.4 must be provided and positioned for parallel
approach to short end of bench seat.

Section:  Size
Requirement:  Benches must be fixed and have seats 20 inches minimum to 24 inches maximum depth, and 42 inches
minimum length.

Section:  Back Support
Requirement:  Benches must have back support 42 inches minimum length extending 2 inches maximum above seat
to a point 18 inches minimum above seat.


Section:  Seat Height
Requirement:  Bench seats must be 17 inches minimum to 19 inches maximum above floor or ground.

Section:  Structural Strength
Requirement:  Allowable stresses must not be exceeded for materials used when vertical or horizontal force of 250
lbs. is applied at any point on seat, fastener, mounting device, or supporting structure.

Section:  Wet Locations
Requirement:  Bench surfaces installed in wet locations must be slip resistant and not accumulate water.