GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 44.1. Purpose.

 The purpose of this chapter is to insure that all employment and public accommodations subject to the coverage of the act are conducted, operated, and made available in a manner which does not discriminate on the basis of handicap or disability and which will effectively promote integration of handicapped or disabled people into the mainstream of life in this Commonwealth.

Comment

   The Commission considers the goal of integration to be mandated by the relevant legislative history, the precatory language that abounds through the act, and the definition of the term ‘‘discriminate’’ which includes ‘‘segregate’’ (Section 4(g) of the act). Efforts to comply with this chapter will be viewed by the Commission in light of their effect upon the integrationist policy.

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