Rights, duties and liabilities of persons training or accompanied by service animal or police dog; unlawful acts; place of accommodation may require certain proof; unmuzzled service animal may not be presumed dangerous; person subject to same conditions and limitations as others.
1. It is unlawful for a place of public accommodation to:
(a) Refuse admittance or service to a person with a visual, aural or physical disability because he is accompanied by a service animal.
(b) Refuse admittance or service to a person training a service animal.
(c) Refuse to permit an employee of the place of public accommodation who is training a service animal to bring the service animal into:
(1) The place of public accommodation; or
(2) Any area within the place of public accommodation to which employees of the place of public accommodation have access, regardless of whether the area is open to the public.
(d) Refuse admittance or service to a person because he is accompanied by a police dog.
(e) Charge an additional fee for a service animal or a police dog.
2. A place of public accommodation may require proof that an animal is a service animal or that a person is training a service animal. This requirement may be satisfied, without limitation, by exhibition of the identification card normally presented to a trainer of a service animal or to a person with a visual, aural or physical disability upon his graduation from a school for guide dogs, school for hearing dogs, school for helping dogs or other school that is approved by the Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to train a service animal to provide a specialized service to a person with a disability.
3. A service animal may not be presumed dangerous by reason of the fact it is not muzzled.
4. This section does not relieve:
(a) A person with a disability who is accompanied by a service animal or a person who trains a service animal from liability for damage caused by the service animal.
(b) A person who is accompanied by a police dog from liability for damage caused by the police dog.
5. Persons with disabilities who are accompanied by service animals are subject to the same conditions and limitations that apply to persons who are not so disabled and accompanied.
6. Persons who are accompanied by police dogs are subject to the same conditions and limitations that apply to persons who are not so accompanied.
7. As used in this section:
(a) “Police dog” means a dog which is owned by a state or local governmental agency and which is used by a peace officer in performing his duties as a peace officer.
(b) “Service animal” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 426.097.
Last modified: February 27, 2006