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2024 Op. S.C. Att'y Gen. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.sag/sagsc0166 and id is 1 raw text is: ALAN WILSON ATTORNEY GENERAL January 31, 2024 W.C. Hood, Jr., Esq. General Counsel Clemson University 207 Sikes Hall Clemson, South Carolina 29634-5003 Dear Mr. Hood: We received your letter requesting an attorney general's opinion regarding service animals-in- training. Specifically, you ask three questions, which we address individually. Law/Analysis 1. Does puppy raising, puppy training, bladder control training and general obedience training qualify an animal as an assistance or guide dog in training or a service animal in training under South Carolina law? Chapter 33 of title 43 of the South Carolina Code provides specific rights to blind and physically disabled persons in South Carolina. Included in these rights is the right to be accompanied by an assistance dog. S.C. Code Ann. § 43-33-20(c) (2015). The law specifies: Every handicapped person has the right to be accompanied by an assistance dog, especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places listed in item (b) of this section without being required to pay an extra charge for the assistance dog. Each handicapped person is liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by the dog. Id. As you mentioned in your letter, section 43-33-20(d) (2015) provides similar rights to assistance or guide dog trainers. Every person who is a trainer of an assistance or guide dog, while engaged in the training of an assistance or guide dog, has the same rights and privileges with respect to access to public facilities and accommodations as blind and disabled persons, including the right to be accompanied by an assistance or guide dog or assistance or guide dog in training, in any of the places listed in item (b) of this section without being required to pay an extra charge for the Ec .D3EN:aiS iL NG f rOS rFFiCEJOxil%9i 0 COtevioi A,JsC S2I-1 '9 fTELEPH. NH: -734<397? a, . i i U93-3.1 8 1

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