New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter XXI - Metropolitan Transportation Authority › Subchapter D - Rules and Regulations Governing the Conduct and Safety of the Public › Part 1044 - Rules Governing The Conduct and Safety of the Public in the Use of the Facilities of the Mta Bus Company › Section 1044.10 - Animals

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) No person,
				  except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) of this section, may bring any
				  animal on or into any conveyance or facility unless enclosed in a container and
				  carried in a manner which would not annoy other passengers.
(b) Subdivision (a) of this section does not
				  apply to working dogs for law enforcement agencies, to service animals which
				  have been trained or are being trained to aid or guide a person with a
				  disability and are accompanying persons with disabilities, or to service
				  animals which are being trained by a professional trainer. All service animals
				  must be harnessed or leashed.
(c)
				  Upon request by a police officer or other designated employee of MTABC or the
				  authority, a trainer must display proof of affiliation with professional
				  training school and that the animal is a licensed service animal or an animal
				  being trained as a service animal. Upon request of a police officer or
				  designated MTABC or authority personnel, a passenger must provide evidence that
				  an animal claimed to be a service animal and thus exempt from the provisions of
				  subdivision (a) of this section qualifies as such or is being trained as a
				  service animal. Such evidence may be supplied through: the display of a service
				  animal license issued by the New York City Department of Health, New York State
				  Department of Agriculture and Markets or by other governmental agencies in New
				  York or elsewhere authorized to issue such licenses, the display of an
				  identification from a professional training school that the animal is a trained
				  service animal, the presence of a harness or a marking on a harness, or the
				  credible verbal assurances of the person with a disability using the service
				  animal or animal being trained as such. For purposes of this paragraph,
				  credible verbal assurances may include a description of one or more tasks that
				  the animal performs or is being trained to perform for the benefit of the
				  person with a disability.
(d) As an
				  alternative to any of the methods described in subdivision (c) of this section
				  for providing evidence that an animal meets the definition of service animal,
				  persons with disabilities who use service animals who do not have a service
				  animal license or other written documentation that the accompanying animal is a
				  service animal may apply to the authority for a service animal identification
				  card.
(e) Police officers or
				  designated MTABC or authority personnel have the right to refuse admission to
				  or eject any passenger accompanied by an animal, including a service animal,
				  which poses a direct threat to the safety of other passengers.