[Adopted 11-5-1998 by Ord. No. 40-1998]
A person who has the total and permanent inability, to engage
in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable
physical or mental impairment including blindness, and shall include,
but not be limited to, any individual who is disabled pursuant to
the federal Social Security Act (421 U.S.C. § 416), or the
federal Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 (45 U.S.C. § 231
et seq.,), or is rated as having a sixty-percent disability or higher
pursuant to any federal law administered by the United States Veterans'
Act. For the purposes of this article, "blindness" means central visual
acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of correcting
lens. An eye which is accompanied by a limitation in the fields of
vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends
an angle no greater than 20º shall be considered as having central
visual acuity of 20/200 or less.
A.
No person shall be charged a construction permit surcharge
fee or enforcing agency fee for any construction, reconstruction,
alteration or improvement designed and undertaken solely to promote
accessibility by disabled persons to an existing public or private
structure or any of the facilities contained therein.
B.
The disabled person, or a parent or sibling of a disabled
person, shall not be required to pay any municipal fee or charge in
order to secure a construction permit for any construction, reconstruction,
alteration or improvement which promotes accessibility to his/her
own living unit.
