No Dog Buildings and Service Dog

You want to check with your attorney, but my best guess is that a coop would not be allowed to turn down an applicant who is blind or visually impaired and requires the assistance of a service dog. If you need further guidance, you can contact the New York City Lighthouse, 111 East 59th Street; the National Federation for the Blind; or the American Council for the Blind.

It depends on the kind of service dog.

If the applicant is blind, then there is absolutely no problem whatsoever. I don not know of one building (even the fancy Fifth Avenue type) that has an issue with a blind person's service dog.

But many people have *doctor authorized* service dogs (*a-hem*) for their "nerves" or other such maladies, and in those cases, boards are not usually impressed - in most cases, getting such a dog certified as a service dog in these instances is just a run-around to try and keep the family pet in a no-dog building, and boards know it.

If they could say yes to your MOTHER IN LAW they should be able to permit the service dog.

amen, and as it should be.

Those people would make a better argument claiming that they're service pigs to the canine applicant.

My reply was to lobster and matsonjones. But mothers-in-law are not generally allowed either.

1. service dogs are exempt from coop/condo and landlord no-dog rules
2. and must be permitted

Arbee is right about SERVICE dawgz.

http://www.nh.gov/disability/information/community/serviceanimals.htm is from New Hampster, so not sure if it applies to New York. Nonetheless, I like their (clear, firm, and repeated as if for persistent morons) differentiation between service animals and all non-service animals, regardless of the fanciful titles bestowed upon them.

I don't know why nobody's claimed that his dog is not a dog at all, but through faux-ADA transubstantiation is actually a de facto cat. [huntersberg, pipe in]

What rb345 said...

rb345-
Do you have a link to the law or regulation that says this? I'd like to read the fine print.

Here is a link to a City Bar Association report about housing rights for the disabled. It has a good discussion about trained and untrained service animals, including "emotional support" animals.

http://www.nycbar.org/images/stories/pdfs/brochures/housing%20chapter%203-26-11%20final.pdf