Your State’s Service Dog Laws 13 May 08
Posted by turtlemom3 in ADA, Law, PAALS, State Laws.trackback
Wanna know what your own state’s legal system has to say about service dogs? Here’s a neato link!
On the left hand column, you simply select your state. All the references to animals in the legal system of that state will be listed. You can then scroll down and find “assistance” or “guide” animals and click on that reference. You can read these references in eye-straining and lid-drooping detail.
If you have or are going to have a service dog, however, you had best learn these laws. Memorize the legal references. You will need them – if not now, tomorrow or next week or next month or next year. At some point in time, I assure you, you WILL need them!! And you WILL need them for your certification tests each year!
Find a friendly attorney, and get her to help you understand the laws of your state. Print out a copy of the laws and laminate the copy at your local Office Depot or Office Max. Keep it with your Woof’s vest and always take it with you. It will be your friend when you are “interfered with” in a store or other place of business or public or private place.
Your service dog organization will help guide you in all this, but be sure to learn all the laws that pertain to you in your state. And if you move, or go visiting with your Woof, learn the new state’s Woof laws. That way you won’t get in trouble citing the wrong law in the wrong place!
Here’s to PAALS, who will be keeping me “up” on all that stuff! All donations gratefully – and graciously accepted!! 
Does Service dogs In Training/and their owners in Oklahoma have the same rights as the trained already service dogs.
Many states have the same accommodation, but not all. Even in those without the legal accommodation, many mbusinesses will permit service-dogs-in-training to use their facilities – briefly – for training purposes.