(a) When a blind person is accompanied by a dog which serves as a guide or leader for him, and he can show proof by certificate or other means that dog leading him 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 subsection (a) hereof, nor charge the blind person a fee or charge for the dog. (ORC 955.43)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(ORC 955.99(C))