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WildBill wrote:

Keith B wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

cb1000rider wrote:I didn't know that you *could* deny access to service dogs, regardless of type.

Until 1/1/14, a business could deny entry by any dog other than those helping the blind.

Chas.

Charles,

Can you give me a reference on that change? I would like to see the revision. Prior there were regulations that prohibited denial of entry to public facilities (definition below). We raised a service dog and had to challenge the local DPS license office Sargent because she threatened to have my wife arrested if she didn't leave the office with the dog.

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/d ... HR.121.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(5) "Public facilities" includes a street, highway, sidewalk, walkway, common carrier, airplane, motor vehicle, railroad train, motor bus, streetcar, boat, or any other public conveyance or mode of transportation; a hotel, motel, or other place of lodging; a public building maintained by any unit or subdivision of government; a building to which the general public is invited; a college dormitory or other educational facility; a restaurant or other place where food is offered for sale to the public; and any other place of public accommodation, amusement, convenience, or resort to which the general public or any classification of persons from the general public is regularly, normally, or customarily invited.

Just two days ago I heard a story on the radio about a veteran with his service dog in a Houston restaurant being asked to leave. He called the police. I am not sure of the final outcome.