- You must be disabled, and your home must be in New Mexico.
- You must own your home, or have a mortgage on it (Apartments are not eligible).
- The home must be permanently sited (a mobile home is OK, but an RV, trailer or fifth wheel are not).
- The home owner and land owner (if applicable) must be willing to sign a release.
- The desired ramp must be outside, and must not be a boardwalk (it must slope down from a door to the ground).
- The ramp request is made by someone other than the client, who understands the client’s needs and can state them objectively (a member of the medical community, clergy or a social worker).
- The location where the ramp is to be built must be clear and safe (no hazardous chemicals, feces, dangerous animals, reptiles, spiders, trash etc.).
- The ramp will be less than 70 feet. For every inch the ramp goes down it will have to be a foot long.
- Restroom facilities must be available.