§ 20-14-305 - Access to housing accommodations. - Arkansas Statutes

20-14-305. Access to housing accommodations.

(a) Visually handicapped, hearing impaired, and other physically handicapped persons shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rental, lease, or compensation in this state subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to other persons.

(b) The provisions of this section with respect to the rights of visually handicapped, hearing impaired, and other physically handicapped persons to equal access to housing accommodations shall not be deemed to include any accommodations in a facility which is designed and used primarily as a single family residence and a portion of which is rented, leased, or furnished for compensation.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require any person renting, leasing, or otherwise providing housing accommodations for compensation to modify his or her accommodations in any way or to provide a higher degree of care for a visually handicapped, hearing impaired, or otherwise handicapped person than for a person who is not visually handicapped, hearing impaired, or otherwise handicapped.