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month Helping Paws receives many inquiries about service dogs
and the law. The inquiries come from all walks of life
-- school children, business owners, landlords, and people with
disabilities. They all have very specific questions about
the access privileges granted to service dogs in public.
This section of the website was designed to help answer some
of those questions.
In Minnesota, the access privileges
of service dogs are granted through laws passed by the Minnesota
Legislature as well as the Americans With Disabilities Act
(ADA) and the Fair Housing Act that were passed by the Federal
government. We are fortunate that Minnesota grants service
dogs-in-training the same access privileges as a fully trained
service dog so that trainers can work with their dogs in realistic
settings before they work with a person with a disability.
The Minnesota Disability
Law Center has also provided two helpful documents about assistance
dog access issues. The first file is a fact sheet, or
summary, of the laws and how they apply in Minnesota.
The second file is the text from the actual state and federal
regulations. Click on the links below to download the
files.
Service
Dog Fact Sheet (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
Service Dog Laws
in Minnesota (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
For more information on the Minnesota laws, follow the links
below to the Minnesota State Legislature's website.
Minnesota Statute 363A.09
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/363A/09.html
Minnesota Statute 363A.19
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/363A/19.html
Minnesota Statute 256C.02 http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/256C/02.html
Minnesota Statute 256C.025 http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/256C/025.html
For more information on the privileges
granted by the ADA, follow the link below to the United States
Department of Justice website for a fact sheet on service
animals.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/animal.htm
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