---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 39.87"
title: "49"
number: "39.87"
heading: "What services are PVOs not required to provide to passengers with a disability on board a passenger vessel?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/39.87"
---

# §39.87. What services are PVOs not required to provide to passengers with a disability on board a passenger vessel?


As a PVO, you are not required to provide extensive special assistance to passengers with a disability. For purposes of this section, extensive special assistance includes the following activities:

- (a) Assistance in actual eating;
- (b) Assistance within a toilet room or assistance elsewhere on the vessel with elimination functions; and
- (c) Provision of medical equipment or services, or personal devices, except to the extent provided to all passengers.

## 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.