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Florida Specifics
Laws Apply To:
Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs, Service Dogs, and primates of genus Cebus
Accessibility:
Assistance Animals are “entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges on all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, streetcars, boats, and other public conveyances or modes of transportation and at hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement, or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited”
Housing:
Assistance Animals are “entitled to rent, lease, or purchase, as other members of the general public, any housing accommodations offered for rent, lease, or other compensation in this state, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.”
Trainers:
Trainers of Assistance Animals have “the same rights and privileges with respect to access to public facilities and the same liability for damage as is provided for deaf or hard of hearing or blind or mobility impaired persons accompanied by dog guides or service dogs.”
Interference and Penalties:
Interference with an Assistance Animal or Assistance Animal in training is a “misdemeanor of the second degree.” The penalty for interference is “imprisonment not to exceed 60 days.”
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