Service Animals In California Hotels. “we welcome service animals” is a national campaign created by the california hotel & lodging association hospitality foundation and made possible by funding from the american hotel & lodging education foundation and the american express foundation to teach people in the hospitality industry and law enforcement how to improve service to. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications.

Learn below which animals qualify as service animals and which public accommodations must allow them. Service animals are working animals that have been trained to perform tasks that assist disabled people. “emotional support animals do not qualify as service animals under the ada, the california unruh civil rights act nor the disabled persons act,” said alden parker, an attorney with fisher.

California follows the ada but also makes an exception for animals that are used for psychiatric purchases.

Hotels are not permitted to charge guests for cleaning the hair or dander shed by a service animal. The plaintiff arrived with his brother and a dog. Read up on that as well. Mayor’s office on disability • 1155 market street, 1st floor • san francisco, ca 94103 tel: