§ 3A-602. Program to provide specialized customer telephone equipment; reimbursement of costs

   (a) In general. -- In accordance with the State budget and § 3A-506 of this title, the Department, in consultation with the Board and the Department of Disabilities, shall establish and administer a program:

   (1) to provide specialized customer telephone equipment to eligible program participants; and

   (2) to provide reimbursement of costs under § 3A-606 of this subtitle.

(b) "Shopping facility" defined. --

   (1) In this subsection, "shopping facility" means an outdoor or indoor retail facility with a common pedestrian area housing more than five sales or rental establishments in which a majority of the tenants have a main entrance from the common pedestrian area.

   (2) This subsection applies to a shopping facility that:

      (i) provides a total number of four or more public pay telephones at the facility of which at least one is located in the common pedestrian area; and

      (ii) is larger than 500,000 square feet.

   (3) In accordance with the standards and regulations established by the Department, the owner, operator, manager, or other person having control of a shopping facility shall acquire and install at least one specialized communications device designed to enable customers with hearing or speech disabilities to access a telephone or wireless service providers network.

HISTORY: 2008, ch. 9, § 2; 2012, chs. 571, 572.