Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language
An act
relating to human rights; ensuring public accommodations for blind and disabled persons;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 363A.19.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
(a) It is an unfair discriminatory practice for an owner, operator, or manager of a hotel, restaurant, public conveyance, or other public place to prohibit a blind or deaf person or a person with a physical or sensory disability from taking a service animal into the public place or conveyance deleted text begin if the service animal can be properly identified as being from a recognized program which trains service animalsdeleted text end to aid blind or deaf persons or persons with physical or sensory disabilities, and if the new text begin service new text end animal is properly harnessed or leashed so that the blind or deaf person or a person with a physical or sensory disability may maintain control of the new text begin service new text end animal.
(b) No person shall require a blind, physically disabled, or deaf person to make an extra payment or pay an additional charge when taking a service animal into any of the public places referred to in paragraph (a).
new text begin (c) For purposes of this section, "service animal" means a service animal as defined by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended. new text end
Presented to the governor April 18, 2013
Signed by the governor April 22, 2013, 11:17 a.m.
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes