---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 36.203"
title: "28"
number: "36.203"
heading: "Integrated settings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/36.203"
---

# §36.203. Integrated settings.

- (a) **General.** A public accommodation shall afford goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations to an individual with a disability in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of the individual.
- (b) **Opportunity to participate.** Notwithstanding the existence of separate or different programs or activities provided in accordance with this subpart, a public accommodation shall not deny an individual with a disability an opportunity to participate in such programs or activities that are not separate or different.
- (c) **Accommodations and services.**
  - (1) Nothing in this part shall be construed to require an individual with a disability to accept an accommodation, aid, service, opportunity, or benefit available under this part that such individual chooses not to accept.
  - (2) Nothing in the Act or this part authorizes the representative or guardian of an individual with a disability to decline food, water, medical treatment, or medical services for that individual.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510; 42 U.S.C. 12186(b), 12205a.

### Source

Source: Order No. 1513-91, 56 FR 35592, July 26, 1991, unless otherwise noted.