Service Dog Buffy       Jim Edwards, Heidi Baird, Service Dogs Buckwheat and Buffy
Information about Service (Assistance) Dogs

Service (Assistance) Dog patches, capes... http://www.sitstay.com/store/clothing/service1.shtml

See http://www.danawheels.net / for more info about what..
"The main types of Assistance Dogs (called Service Dogs in the Americans with Disabilities Act and many laws), are:"

Laws regarding these dogs http://sdog.danawheels.net/laws.shtml

California laws are at http://sdog.danawheels.net/laws/statelaws.shtml

Caifornia access rights ftp://leginfo.public.ca.gov/pub/code/civ/00001-01000/54-55.1
specifically:
:"54.2. (a) Every individual with a disability has the right to be accompanied by a guide dog, signal dog, or service dog, especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places specified in Section 54.1 without being required to pay an extra charge or security deposit for the guide dog, signal dog, or service dog. However, the individual shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by his or her dog."

"54.1. (a) (1) Individuals with disabilities shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to accommodations, advantages, facilities, medical facilities, including hospitals, clinics, and physicians' offices, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motorbuses, streetcars, boats, or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation (whether private, public, franchised, licensed, contracted, or otherwise provided), telephone facilities, adoption agencies, private schools, hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement, or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, or state or federal regulation, and applicable alike to all persons."

Things to do http://sdog.danawheels.net/whattodo.shtml

This person is accompanied by a service dog. This service dog is allowed to accompany this person in ALL places of public accommodation with NO exceptions. You do not have the right to ask questions of this person other than 1) Are you disabled? and 2) Is that a service dog? Once those questions are answered yes, you may not ask any other questions of this person that pertains to their disability and the skills or training of the service dog. Refusal to provide equal access to people with disabilities with service dogs is a federal civil rights violation, provided by the American Disability Act of 1990.  U.S. Department of Justice,  ADA Information Line 800-514-0301

These links just discovered provide more info:

http://www.animallaw.net/new_page_7.htm    Gov code section 12926 (defines "disability", similar to article from MS magazine...

http://www.gdu-cal.org/law_cal.html CA laws for CA guide dog users (includes specifics on requirements for registration of "tagged and labeled" dog with city clerk or animal control as "guide" or "service" dog.)

http://www.gdu-cal.org/law_fed.html  Federal laws for CA guide dog users ( includes Federal regulations...)

http://deltasociety.org  and http://deltasociety.org/dsb000.htm much more about service dogs... printable Law Information card

Here is a card adapted from danawheels.net

This person is accompanied by a service dog
This service dog is allowed to accompany this person in all places of public accommodation with no exceptions. You do not have the right to ask questions of this person other than 1) Are you disabled? and 2) Is that a service dog? Once those questions are answered yes, you may not ask any other questions of this person that pertains to their disability and the skills or training of the service dog. Refusal to provide equal access to people with disabilities with service dogs is a federal civil rights violation, provided by the American Disability Act of 1990. U.S. Department of Justice, ADA Information Line 800-514-0301

Avery 8371 Business card Word doc to print out above.

From California Code of Regulations  (Table of Contents)
Title 14 Natural Resources
Division 3 Department of Parks and Recreation
Chapter 1 General
§4300 Authority
§4312. Control of Animals
(a) No person shall permit a dog to run loose, or turn loose any animal in any portion of a unit, except upon written authorization by the District Superintendent. 

(b) No person shall keep an animal in any unit except under his/her immediate control. 

(c) No person shall keep a noisy, vicious, or dangerous dog or animal or one which is disturbing to other persons, in any unit and remain therein after he/she has been asked by a peace officer to leave. 

(d) No person shall permit a dog or a cat to remain outside a tent, camper, or enclosed vehicle during the night. 

(e) No person shall bring a dog into, permit a dog to enter or remain, or possess a dog in units under control of Department of Parks and Recreation unless the dog is on leash of no more than six feet in length and under the immediate control of a person or confined in a vehicle. 

(f) No person shall bring a dog into, permit a dog to enter or remain, or possess a dog: 
1) beyond the limits of campgrounds, picnic areas, parking areas, roads, structures or in posted portions of units except as provided elsewhere in this section. 

2) on any beach adjacent to any body of water in any unit except in portions of units designated for dogs. 

(g) In state recreation areas open to hunting pursuant to Public Resources Code, Section 5003.1, dogs may be used to assist in hunting. Such dogs shall not be permitted to pursue or take any wildlife other than that being hunted. 

(h) Subsections e) and f) shall not apply to trained “seeing eye,” “signal,” or “service” dogs used to guide a physically impaired person there present, or dogs that are being trained to become “seeing eye,” “signal,” or “service” dogs. 

(g) Grazing. No person shall graze, herd or permit livestock to enter or remain inside a unit without specific written authorization of the Department, except for grazing by animals used for riding or packing under direct control of visitors or concessionaires. 

NOTE: Authority cited: Section 5003, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 5003.1 and 508, Public Resources Code.

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Internet Directory of "About Dogs"

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