New Jersey Attorney General
P.O. Box 080
Trenton, NJ 08625-0080
609-292-4925
609-292-4605 (office of Civil Rights)
New Jersey Department of Law and Safety
Division of Civil Rights
31 Clinton Street
Newark, NJ 07102
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48:3-33. Dog may accompany blind, handicapped or deaf person on buses or other public utilities
"Any blind person, accompanied by a dog, known and described as a "seeing-eye dog," any deaf person, accompanied by a dog, known and described as a "hearing ear dog," any handicapped person, accompanied by a dog, known and described as a "service dog," or any blind, handicapped or deaf person accompanied by a guide or service dog trained by a recognized training agency or school, when riding on any bus or other public utility, as defined in R.S. 48:2-13, engaged in transportation of passengers, may keep such animal in his or her immediate custody. The Board of Public Utilities shall prescribe rules and regulations concerning such custody."
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10:5-29 Person with a disability; accompaniment by service or guide dog; use of public facilities
Excludes owner-trained dogs. Dog must remain in immediate custody of handler. Handler liable for damages. Covers employment, public accomodations, and housing.
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10:5-29.1 Person with a disability; unlawful employment practice.
"Unless it can be clearly shown that a person's disability would prevent such person from performing a particular job, it is an unlawful employment practice to deny to an otherwise qualified person with a disability the opportunity to obtain or maintain employment, or to advance in position in his job, solely because such person is a person with a disability or because such person is accompanied by a service or guide dog."
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10:5-29.2 Housing accommodations.
In part, "A person with a disability who has a service or guide dog, or who obtains a service or guide dog, shall be entitled to full and equal access to all housing accommodations and shall not be required to pay extra compensation for such service or guide dog, but shall be liable for any damages done to the premises by such dog. Any provision in any lease or rental agreement prohibiting maintenance of a pet or pets on or in the premises shall not be applicable to a service or guide dog owned by a tenant who is a person with a disability."
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10:5-29.3 Service, guide dog trainer; access to public facilities; responsibilities.
"A service or guide dog trainer, while engaged in the actual training process and activities of service dogs or guide dogs, shall have the same rights and privileges with respect to access to public facilities, and the same responsibilities as are applicable to a person with a disability."
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10:5-29.4 Right-of-way for person accompanied by or instructing a guide dog.
"A person with a disability accompanied by a guide dog, or a guide dog instructor engaged in instructing a guide dog, shall have the right-of-way over vehicles while crossing a highway or any intersection thereof, as provided in section 1 of P.L.1939, c.274 (C.39:4-37.1)."
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10:5-29.5. Violations or misrepresentation of guide dog; fine
"Any person who violates the provisions of this act, or who fits a dog with a harness of the type commonly used by blind persons in order to represent that such dog is a guide dog when training of the type that guide dogs normally receive has not in fact, been provided, shall be fined not less than $100.00 and not more than $500.00."
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10:5-29.6 Rights and privileges relative to service dogs.
"Whenever the law accords rights and privileges to or imposes conditions and restrictions upon blind persons with respect to their use of dogs to countervail their disability, and known and described as "seeing eye" dogs, those rights, privileges, conditions and restrictions shall also apply to persons with disabilities with respect to their use of dogs to countervail their disability, and known and described as either "service dogs" or "hearing ear" dogs."
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10:5-5 Definitions relative to discrimination.
definitions of "Blind person" "Guide dog" "Guide or service dog trainer" also "Disability" means physical disability.
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32:1-146.8. Rules and regulations (Port Authority)
"No person shall enter any car or other rolling stock, area, building or appurtenance of the Hudson Tubes or Hudson Tubes extensions with any animal, except an animal properly confined in an appropriate container or a guide dog properly harnessed and muzzled, accompanying a blind person carrying a certificate of identification issued by a guide dog school."
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39:4-37.1 Right-of-way crossing intersection for blind person, guide dog instructor.
"Any blind person using as a guide a walking cane, predominantly white or metallic in color or any blind person using as a guide a seeing-eye dog or other dog trained as a guide for the blind, equipped with a rigid "U" -shaped harness such as customarily used on dog guides or any guide dog instructor engaged in instructing a guide dog shall have the right-of-way in crossing any highway or any intersection thereof, and all drivers of vehicles shall yield the right-of-way to such blind person or guide dog instructor engaged in instructing a guide dog although traffic on said highway or intersection thereof is controlled by traffic signals, anything in the motor vehicle and traffic laws of this State to the contrary notwithstanding. The failure of a blind person or guide dog instructor to comply with the provisions of this act shall not give rise to a conclusive presumption of contributory negligence by such person. The provisions of this section shall not apply where traffic is specially directed by a traffic or police officer."
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ddTITLE 10 CIVIL RIGHTS 10:5-5 Definitions relative to discrimination. defines service dogs and trainers
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