Title 25 — Mental and Physical Illness or Disability
27 chapters · 259 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-01 Legislative policy
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It is the policy of this state to encourage and enable the blind, the visually handicapped, and the otherwise physically disabled to participate fully in the social and economic life of the state and to engage in remunerative employment.
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-01.1 Definitions
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For purposes of this chapter "service animal" means any dog trained to do work, perform tasks, or provide assistance for the benefit of an individual with a disability. The term includes a dog trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability, pull a wheelchair, le…
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-02 Individual with a disability - Service animal - Admission to public places
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An individual with a disability is entitled to be accompanied by a service animal in places of public accommodations, common carriers, facilities of a health care provider, and all places to which the public is generally invited, without being required to pay an extra charge for …
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-02.1 Trainer and a service animal in training - Admission to public places
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1. A trainer with a service animal in training may enter any place of public accommodation, common carrier, facility of a health care provider, and any place to which the public is generally invited, without being required to pay an extra charge for the service animal in training…
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-02.2 Service animal - Misrepresentation - Penalty
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An individual is guilty of an infraction if the individual, in an attempt to gain admission to a public place under this chapter or obtain a reasonable housing accommodation under section 47-16-07.5, knowingly makes a false claim that a pet is a service animal.
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-03 Driver of motor vehicle - Precaution - Individual with service animal
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If the driver of a motor vehicle approaches an individual who is blind or visually impaired and who is carrying a cane predominately white or metallic in color, with or without a red tip, or who is accompanied by a service animal, the driver shall take all reasonable precautions …
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-04 Penalty for interfering or denying use of facilities
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Any person who denies or interferes with admittance to or enjoyment of the public places or facilities enumerated in section 25-13-02 or otherwise interferes with the rights of an individual who is blind or visually impaired, or with the rights of an individual who is accompanied…
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-05 State employment of individuals who are blind or otherwise disabled
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It is the policy of this state that individuals who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise disabled shall be employed in the state service, the service of the political subdivisions of the state, the public schools, and all other employment supported in whole or in part by pu…
N.D.C.C. § 25-13-06 Killing or injury of service animal - Penalty
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1. A person is guilty of a class C felony and is subject to a civil penalty of up to ten thousand dollars if that person willfully and unjustifiably kills, shoots, tortures, torments, beats, kicks, strikes, mutilates, disables, or otherwise injures a service animal. 2. A person i…