Oklahoma § 7-19.1 - Public conveyances and public accommodations - Guide,

§ 7-19.1. Public conveyances and public accommodations - Guide,

signal, or service dogs - Identification of dog - Definitions.

A. Any blind, physically handicapped, deaf or hard-of-hearing

person who is a passenger on any common carrier, airplane, motor

vehicle, railroad train, motorbus, streetcar, boat, or any other

public conveyance or mode of transportation operating within this

state or any dog trainer from a recognized training center when in

the act of training guide, signal, or service dogs shall be entitled

to have with him or her a guide, signal, or service dog specially

trained or being trained for that purpose, without being required to

pay an additional charge therefor, but shall be liable as hereafter

set forth in subsection B of this section.

B. A blind, physically handicapped, deaf or hard-of-hearing

person and his or her guide, signal, or service dog or a dog trainer

from a recognized training center in the act of training guide,

signal, or service dogs shall not be denied admittance to or refused

access to any of the following because of such dog: Any street,

highway, sidewalk, walkway, any common carrier, airplane, motor

vehicle, railroad train, motor bus, streetcar, boat, or any other

public conveyance or mode of transportation, hotel, motel, or other

place of lodging, public building maintained by any unit or

subdivision of government, building to which the general public is

invited, college dormitory and other educational facility,

restaurant or other place where food is offered for sale to the

public, or any other place of public accommodation, amusement,

convenience, or resort to which the general public or any

classification of persons from the general public is regularly,

normally, or customarily invited within the State of Oklahoma. Such

blind, physically handicapped, deaf or hard-of-hearing person or dog

trainer from a recognized training center in the act of training

guide, signal, or service dogs shall not be required to pay any

additional charges for his or her guide, signal, or service dog, but

shall be liable for any damage done to the premises by such dog.

C. A dog used by a deaf or hard-of-hearing person shall be

required to wear an orange identifying collar.

D. For the purposes of this section and Section 113.1 of Title

41 of the Oklahoma Statutes:

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 7. Blind Persons

1. "Physically handicapped person" means any person who has a

physical impairment which severely and permanently restricts

mobility of two or more extremities, or who is so severely disabled

as to be unable to move without the aid of a wheelchair;

2. "Service dog" means any dog individually trained to the

physically handicapped person's requirements; and

3. "Signal dog" means any dog trained to alert a deaf or hardof-hearing person to intruders or sounds.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 9, § 1, emerg. eff. Feb. 6, 1968. Amended by

Laws 1981, c. 41, § 1; Laws 1985, c. 19, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1985;

Laws 1988, c. 71, § 1, emerg. eff. March 25, 1988; Laws 1989, c.

154, § 3, operative July 1, 1989; Laws 1992, c. 122, § 1, emerg.

eff. April 23, 1992; Laws 1998, c. 246, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1998.