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Reasonable Accommodations – Missing/Disabled Appliances on REAC Inspections
Over the last few months, we have received a number of questions from clients and from attendees at our conferences and speaking engagements about "reasonable accommodations during UPCS Inspections"; most commonly the question has been related to stoves that have been removed or disabled due to a reasonable accommodation request. The question is: is there a specific rule that says "The inspector should not cite this as a deficiency if there is documentation regarding the reasonable accommodation?" The answer is "No" – there is no such rule, and any missing or disabled stove should be cited as a deficiency.
There is a rule in the Compilation Bulletin 2.1 that provides for an exception in Elderly and Disabled dwelling units to recording doors as "Missing" if the remaining hardware is the only indicator that a door was removed. But this is the only exception and it doesn't mention reasonable accommodation in exact terms, only by inference.
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