---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 39.43"
title: "49"
number: "39.43"
heading: "May PVOs impose special charges on passengers with a disability for providing services required by this rule?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/39.43"
---

# §39.43. May PVOs impose special charges on passengers with a disability for providing services required by this rule?

- (a) As a PVO, you must not charge higher fares, surcharges, or other fees to passengers with a disability that are not imposed on other passengers for transportation or use of the vessel.
- (b) If the accommodations on a vessel that are accessible to passengers with a disability are available only in a type or class of service or part of a vessel that are more expensive than the type or class of service or part of a vessel that the passenger requests, you must provide the accessible accommodation at the price of the type or class of service or facility that the passenger requests.
- (c) You must not impose special or extra charges for providing facilities, equipment, or services that this rule requires to be provided to passengers with a disability.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12101 through 12213; 49 U.S.C. 322; 29 U.S.C. 794.

### Source

Source: 75 FR 38893, July 6, 2010, unless otherwise noted.