(a) When a blind, deaf or mobility impaired person is accompanied by a dog that serves as a guide, leader, listener or support dog for him or her, and he or she can show proof by certificate or other means that the dog leading him or her, listening for him or her or providing support or assistance for him or her, has been trained for that purpose by a nonprofit special agency engaged in such work, the person is entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of all public conveyances, hotels, lodging places, all places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, and may take the dog into such conveyances and places, subject only to the conditions and limitations applicable to all persons not so accompanied.
(b) No person shall deprive a blind, deaf or mobility impaired person of any of the advantages, facilities or privileges provided in subsection (a) hereof, nor charge the blind, deaf or mobility impaired person a fee or charge for the dog.
(ORC 955.43 (B))
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 50-18. Passed 11-26-18.)