Service Animals definition

Service Animals means any animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability.
Service Animals means any animal that is of service to a person with a disability.
Service Animals means any dog(s) that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an “Insured” with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual or other mental disability. The work or tasks performed by a “service animal” must be directly related to the “Insured’s” disability.

Examples of Service Animals in a sentence

  • Note: This provision does not apply to Service Animals accompanying passengers with disabilities or search and rescue animals accompanied by handlers.

  • Live animals except as provided in Rule 75, Acceptance of Animals (Service Animals and Pets).

  • If coverage for a Trip is purchased and it is later determined that You, Your Traveling Companion, Family Member, Pet(s) or Service Animal(s) scheduled and booked to travel with You were not Medically Fit to Travel at the time of purchase of coverage for Your Trip, as defined in the policy, the coverage is cancelled and premium paid will be returned.

  • We will not pay any expense as a result of You having been advised in writing that You, Your Traveling Companion, Family Member, Pet(s) or Service Animal(s) scheduled and booked to travel with You are not Medically Fit to Travel at the time of purchase of coverage for a Trip, as defined in the policy.

  • ABSOLUTELY NO PETS with the exception of Service Animals are allowed.


More Definitions of Service Animals

Service Animals means dogs or other pets trained to do work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disabilities
Service Animals as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), and  the broader category of “Assistance Animals” under the Fair Housing Act, that provide physical and/or emotional support to individuals with disabilities. Goshen College is committed to allowing individuals with disabilities the use of a Service Animal on campus to facilitate their full participation and equal access to the College’s programs and activities. Goshen College is also committed to allowing Emotional Support Animals necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to use and enjoy college housing. This Policy explains the specific requirements applicable to a student’s use of an Emotional Support Animal in College housing. Goshen College reserves the right to amend this Policy as circumstances require. This policy applies solely to “Emotional Support Animals” which may be necessary in college housing. It does not apply to “service animals” as defined by the ADAAA. Although it is the policy of Goshen College that students are generally prohibited from having animals of any type other than fish in college housing, Goshen College will consider a request by an individual with a disability for reasonable accommodation from this prohibition to allow an Emotional Support Animal that is necessary because of a disability, and reasonable. However, no Emotional Support Animal may be kept in college housing at any time prior to the individual receiving approval as a reasonable accommodation pursuant to this Policy.
Service Animals means any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability.
Service Animals means a service animal accompanying a person with a disability where it is readily apparent that the animal is used by the person for reasons relating to his or her disability, or if the person provides a letter from a physician or nurse confirming that the person requires the animal for reasons relating to the disability.
Service Animals means any animal that is of service to a person with a disability. “Support Person” shall mean any person whether a paid professional, volunteer, family member, or friend who accompanies a person with a disability in order to help with communications, personal care or medical needs, or with access to goods or services.
Service Animals. Service Animals" shall mean any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability, personal care attendant, or companion, including, but not limited to, guiding individuals with impaired vision, alerting individuals with impaired hearing, providing minimal protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, or fetching dropped items.
Service Animals are a category of animals that may work, provide assistance, or perform physical tasks for an individual with a disability. Dogs are commonly used as Service Animals, but any animal may serve a person with a disability. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, or performing other duties. Service Animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a Service Animal has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. “Emotional Support Animals” referred to in the document as (ESA) are a category of animals that provide necessary emotional support to an individual with a mental or psychiatric disability that alleviates one or more identified symptoms of an individual’s disability, but which are not considered Service Animals under the ADAAA. Some ESA Animals are professionally trained, but in other cases ESA Animals provide the necessary support to individuals with disabilities without any formal training or certification. The question in determining if an Emotional Support Animal will be allowed in University housing is whether or not the ESA Animal is necessary because of the individual’s disability to afford the individual an equal opportunity to use and enjoy University housing and its presence in University housing is reasonable. However, even if the individual with a disability establishes the necessity for an Emotional Assistance Animal and it is allowed in University housing, an Emotional Support Animal is not permitted in other areas of the University (e.g. dining facilities, libraries, academic buildings, athletic buildings and facilities, classrooms, labs, individual centers, etc.).