(a) When a blind person is accompanied by a dog which serves as a guide or leader for him or her, and he or she can show proof by certificate or other means that the dog leading him or her has been trained for that purpose by some 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 and 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, except that:
(1) The dog shall not occupy a seat in any public conveyance.
(2) The dog shall be upon a leash while using the facilities of a common carrier.
(b) No person shall deprive a blind person of any of the advantages, facilities or privileges provided in division (a) hereof, nor charge the blind person a fee or charge for the dog.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(1982 Code, § 505.16) (Ord. 77-27. Passed 5-2-1977.)