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Landlords and tenants are each responsible for satisfying the accessibility requirements of the AwDA. Typically, they may decide to apportion this responsibility between themselves by contract. For example, the landlord may agree to be responsible for compliance for common areas and the tenant may agree to do the same for his or her office space. While the AwDA allows them to do so, agreeing by contract to apportion who will do what does not vitiate either party’s responsibility for the entire portion of the premises that an individual may visit, from curbside to dental chair and back.

Some dentists who lease their office space have anecdotally reported that their landlords would not take needed compliance steps. A lease provision requiring the landlord to do so with respect to common areas, and to indemnify the dentist-tenant for damages should the landlord fail to do so, may be one way to help protect against this risk.