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Air Carrier Access Act - Service Animals
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Under the Air Carrier Access Act and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Air Carrier Access Rules, carriers must permit dog guides or other service animals with appropriate identification to accompany a person with a disability on a flight. Identification may include:
* cards or other documentation;
* the presence of a harness or markings on a harness;
* tags; or
* the credible verbal assurance of the person using the animal.
If carriers provide special information to passengers concerning the transportation of animals outside the continental United States, they must provide such information to all passengers with animals on such flights, not simply to persons with disabilities who are traveling with service animals.
Carriers must permit a service animal to accompany a person with a disability to any seat in which the person sits, unless the animal obstructs an aisle or other area that must remain clear in order to facilitate an emergency evacuation, in which case the passenger must be assigned another seat. Copyright 2009 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
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