---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 84.16"
title: "45"
number: "84.16"
heading: "Discrimination prohibited."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/84.16"
---

# §84.16. Discrimination prohibited.

- (a) No qualified individual with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be subjected to discrimination in employment under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance from the Department.
- (b) The standards used to determine whether [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section has been violated shall be the standards applied under title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), [42 U.S.C. 12111](/usc/42/12111.md) et seq., and, as such sections relate to employment, the provisions of sections [501 through 504](/cfr/45/501..504.md) and [511](/cfr/45/511.md) of the ADA of 1990, as amended (codified at 42 U.S.C. [12201-12204](/usc/42/12201-12204.md), [12210](/usc/42/12210.md)), as implemented in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's regulation at [29 CFR part 1630](/cfr/29/part1630.md).

## Notes

### Source

Source: 89 FR 40185, May 9, 2024, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 794.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 22677, May 4, 1977, unless otherwise noted.