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Many blind, deaf or physically disabled Americans rely on dogs for
assistance. These dogs provide companionship, usefulness and
affection to their person. They provide the person to be an
independent individual.

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) 1990

Title lll 4.2300 regarding service animals public accommodation
must modify its policies to permit the use of a service animal by an
individual with a disability, unless doing so would result in a
fundamental alteration or jeopardize the safe operation of the
public accommodation.

Service animals include any animal individually trained to do work
or perform tasks for the benefit of the individual with a disability.
Tasks typically performed by service animals include guiding
people with impaired vision, alerting individuals with impaired
hearing to the presence of intruders or sounds, providing minimal
protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, or retrieving
dropped items.

The care or supervision of a service animal is the responsibility of
his or her owner. A public accommodation may not require an
individual with a disability to post a deposit as a condition
permitting a service animal to accompany its owner in a place or
public accommodation, even if such deposits are required for pets.

MISSOURI STATUTES:

TITLE X11. PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 209. AID TO THE BLIND RIGHTS OF PERSON WITH
VISUAL, HEARING OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

Current from End of 1997 2nd EX. Sess.

209.150. Rights of person with visual, hearing or physical
disabilities guide, hearing or service dogs, no extra charge for
liability for actual damage.

1. Every person with a visual, aural or physical disability shall have
the same rights afforded to a person with no such disability to the
full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways,
public buildings, public facilities, and other public places.

2. Every person with a visual, aural or physical disability is entitled
to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and
privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles,
railroad trains, motor buses, taxis, streetcars, boats or any other
public conveyances or modes of accommodation, amusement or
resort, and other places to which the general public is invited,
subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law
and applicable alike to all person.

3. Every person with a visual, aural or physical disability shall have
the right to be accompanied by a guide dog, hearing dog, or service
dog, which is especially trained for the purpose, in any of the
places listed in subsection 2 of the section without being required
to pay an extra charge for the guide dog, hearing dog or service
dog: provided that such person shall be liable for any damage
done to the premises or facilities by such dog.

4. As used in sections 209.150 to 209.190, the term "service dog"
means any dog specifically trained to assist a person with a
physical disability by performing necessary physical tasks which
the person cannot perform. Such tasks shall include, but not be
limited to pulling a wheelchair, retrieving items, and carrying
supplies.

Section A. Chapter 209, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one
new section, to be known as section 209.152, to read as follows:
209.152. Any trainer, from a recognized training center, of a guide
dog, hearing assistance dog or service dog shall have the right to
be accompanied by such a dog in or upon any of the premises
listed in section 209.150, while engaged in the training of the dog
without being required to pay an extra charge for such dog. Such
trainer shall be liable for any damage done to the premise of
facilities by such dog.