The ADA defines service animals as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, 提醒聋人, 拉轮椅, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, 或履行其他职责. Service animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability, regardless of whether they have been licensed or certified by a state or local government.
Service animals are permitted to accompany the individual with a disability to all areas of campus where members of the public are permitted except where prohibited due to health, 环境, 或安全隐患(如.g. 一定的实验室, 机械的房间, 需要穿防护服的区域, or areas where there is a danger to the animal).
更多信息请参见: http://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-2010-requirements/#how-service-animal-is-defined
-Individuals with disabilities who are seeking to use a service animal are encouraged to notify 可及性服务. The handler will be asked to complete a voluntary Service Animal Registration Form. Completed Service Animal Registration Forms shall be kept by 可及性服务, 与RVCC保存的所有其他记录分开. If the animal qualifies as a service animal, the handler must comply with this policy at all times while the animal is on RVCC property.
-If it is not obvious what service the animal provides, it is not permissible to ask about the person’s disability, 请求的文档, or a demonstration of the work the animal can perform. 允许的查询仅限于:
1)该动物是服务性动物吗?
2) What work or task is the dog trained to perform?
-Members of the campus community shall avoid:
抚摸、喂食或分散动物的注意力. 记住，它是工作动物.
– To assist the campus community in identifying the animal as a service animal, the service animal should wear a harness or other gear that identifies it as a working animal.
-The service animal must have an owner identification tag, current license and tags from local authorities.
– Service animals must be properly immunized and vaccinated.
-The handler is financially responsible for any damage the service animal causes including bodily injury and property damage beyond reasonable wear and tear.
–服务性动物必须被套上, 栓着, 或系, unless these devices interfere with the service animal’s work or the individual’s disability prevents using these devices. 在这种情况下, the individual must maintain control of the animal through voice, 信号, 或其他有效的控制措施.
-服务性动物必须经过驯养. The handler is responsible for all clean up and waste disposal. Animal waste must be immediately picked up by the owner, 放在塑料袋里, 安全系, 然后扔在外面的垃圾桶里.
-The school is not responsible for any harm to a service animal while on campus, including but not limited to injury to the animal caused by pest management or lawn care products.
-The animal may not be allowed on campus, regardless of training or certification
-When the animal’s behavior poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others
-Exhibits behavior that interferes with the educational process
-Behaves in an unacceptable way and the handler does not control the animal
-Is not housebroken, licensed, or properly vaccinated
-如果动物被排除在财产之外, RVCC shall still afford the individual with a disability the opportunity to participate in its programs or activity without having the service animal on the premises.
Service animals are not permitted in laboratories:
- Utilizing risk group 2 or higher biological materials
- 使用放射性物质
- Requiring protective clothing (sterile facilities or containing hazardous pathogens)
- If the animal is trained to pick up items or alert the user and materials used in the lab could be harmful
Laboratory classrooms where the service animal is permitted may still require appropriate protective equipment i.e. 狗护目镜，靴子，或者一个垫子躺在上面. 进一步, service animals can be excluded from laboratory classrooms when the animal’s behavior poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others, exhibits behavior that interferes with the educational process, or behaves in an unacceptable way given the environment and the handler does not control the animal.
Service animals permitted in a laboratory classroom should be placed out of the way of hazards, should not create an obstacle to other students, and should allow the service animal to keep the student in their line of sight. Possible locations must be discussed with the handler first and may include a location at the end of a bench, 在角落里, 在实验台上, 在桌子下面, 靠墙和/或衣架下面.
Please discuss the nature of any lab sciences you may be enrolled in with your instructor in order to determine if the lab is a safe environment for the service animal.