SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS DEPARTMENT
Access Membership Application Phone (707) 565-2041 Fax (707) 579-8247
website: sonomacountyparks.org
e-mail: parks@sonoma-county.org
Eligibility Requirements
For purposes of this program, a permanently disabled person is defined as anyone who: 1) has a
physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person’s major life
activities; and 2) has a current record of such impairment.
To be eligible for an Access Membership, the applicant must possess one of the following
permanent disabilities:
DEVELOPMENTAL – Persons who meet the legal definition of, or have been identified as
developmentally disabled. This includes autism, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, etc.
HEARING – Persons who have total deafness or are unable to hear with the aid of an assistance
device on the level that meets the standards of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), as
determined by an audiometer.
MENTAL
– Persons who have any mental disorder on the level of severity that restrict activities of daily
living, social functioning, or concentration.
PHYSICAL – Persons who have any of the following physical disabilities:
A. Mobility – Orthopedic impairments, amputations, or functional limitations where there is: 1) loss
or significant impairment of one or both upper extremities; or 2) loss or significant impairment of
one or both lower extremities; or 3) impairment of the trunk, back or spine that is a medically
diagnosed disability, which substantially limits
one or more major life activities, impairs or
interferes with mobility, or requires the aid of an assistance device for mobility.
B. Cardiovascular – Severe cardiac impairment resulting from one of three consequences of
heart disease: 1) congestive heart disorder; or 2) ischemia with or without necrosis of heart
muscle; or 3) conduction disturbances and/or arrhythmias resulting in cardiac syncope; or 4)
chronic venous insufficiency, or peripheral arterial disease with intermittent claudication.
C. Respiratory – Lung disease to such an extent that force expiration volume at one second,
when measured by spirometry, is less than one liter, or arterial oxygen tension (PO
2
) is less
than 60 mm/HG on room air at rest. Also, persons with episodic asthma, chronic bronchitis,
etc.
D. Neurological – Multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders such as epilepsy and
Parkinsonian syndrome.
SPEECH – Persons who have a loss of speech from glossectomy or laryngectomy, or from cicatricial
laryngeal stenosis due to injury or infection that resulted in the loss of voice production by normal
means.
VISUAL – Persons whose remaining vision in their better eye, after best correction, is 20/200 or less as
measured by the Snellen test. Also, persons with a substantial limited visual field, visual efficiency and
homonymous hemianopsia, etc.
Est. 8/97 Rev 07/15
