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Adopted Service Animal Rules

November 26, 2008

 

NEW SERVICE ANIMAL RULES: Effective November 19, 2008

Effective November 19, 2008, the Commission amended its housing and public accommodations regulations covering “service animals” in Chapter 7:   Accessibility Regulations of the Maine Human Rights Commission; and Chapter 8:   Housing Regulations of the Maine Human Rights Commission.  

The amendments conform the Commission’s rules to the changes to the Maine Human Rights Act created by Public Law, Chapter 664, 123 rd Maine State Legislature.   The new statutory provisions, which were effective July 17, 2008 and can be found at 5 M.R.S.A. §§ 4553(9-D), 4592(8), and 4582-A(3), added a definition of “service animal” to the Act and address the rights of people with disabilities to use service animals in housing and places of public accommodation.   The adopted rule incorporates these changes into the Commission’s housing and public accommodations regulations.

The adopted rule and basis statement may be viewed below.

 

 

HTML Basis Statement

PDF Basis Statement

HTML Rule

PDF Rule