BP 344: 2024 revised accessibility rules

7192 OFFICIAL GAZETTE VoL. 120, No. 28 -_— Vor. 120; No..28 National Council on Disability Affairs REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 3. Scope: NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY The provisions of these Rules and AFFAIRS Regulations shall apply to the following: IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS AS a. Public and private buildings and AMENDED OF BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG related structures for public use and 344 (ACCESSIBILITY LAW) which shall be constructed, repaired or renovated "An Act to Enhance the Mobility of Disabled b. Streets and highways and public Persons by Requiring Certain Buildings, utilities Institutions, Establishments, and Other i. Streets and highways Public Utilities To Install Facilities and Other ii. Public transport vehicles which Devices." shall include: 1. Passenger buses and Jointly Promulgated by: jeepneys The Department of Public Works and 2. Passenger trains, including Highways those of the Light Rail Transit Port Area, Manila Authority (LRTA) 3. Domestic inter-island The Department of Transportation vessels Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila 4. Domestic aircraft of air carriers In coordination with: ii. Public Telephones The National Council on Disability Affairs iv. Public transport terminals . (Accessibility Sector on the Magna Carta for including those of LRTA Persons with Disabilities) i Diliman, Quezon City 4. Application: RULE | - SCOPE AND APPLICATION a. Public and private buildings and related structures for public use. Nc 1. Purpose: permit for the construction, repair The Rules and Regulations set forth or renovation of public and private herein provide for minimum requirements buildings and related structures for and standards to make buildings, facilities, public use, whether owned or leased and utilities for public use accessible to shall be granted or issued unless the persons with disabilities, pursuant to the owner thersof<shall have Proves! Hg © in the places and specifications objectives of Batas Pambansa Bilang 5 : = " te submitted for approval barrier-fres 344, "An Act To Enhance the Mobility of facilities and accessibility features Disabled Persons by Requiring Certain as provided in these Rules and fe Bulidings, Institutions, Esjablishments accordance with the following criteria and Public Utilities to Install Facilities and i. Building and related structures 1- Other Devices. %e constrilaiad - 2. Definition of Terms: 1. At the space where the primary function is serves For the purpose of these Rules and and where facilites an- Regulations, the words, terms, and ingress/egress of the building phrases enumerated in Annex "A" hereof or structure are located, as = shall have the meaning as provided make such space accessib = therein. tothe personswith disabilities