An Administrator's Guide to California Private School Law

1550 Unlike the ADA, California state regulations provide minimum standards for employees who require assistive animals in the workplace, including, but not limited to, requiring that the assistive animal: (1) be free from offensive odors and display habits appropriate to the work environment; (2) does not engage in behavior that endangers the health or safety of the individual with a disability or others in the workplace; and (3) be trained to provide assistance for the employee’s disability. See Cal. Code Regs., tit. 2, § 11065, subd. (a)(2). Also, if an employee requests permission to bring an assistive animal into the workplace as a reasonable accommodation, under state regulations, prior to allowing the animal to be in the workplace, the school may require that the employee supply: (1) a letter from the employee’s health care provider stating that the employee has a disability and explaining why the employee requires the presence of the assistive animal in the workplace; and (2) confirmation that the animal meets the school’s minimum standards for employees who require assistive animals. See Cal. Code Regs., tit. 2, § 11069, subd. (e). The ADA is a floor, however, and preempts any state or local law that puts an additional burden on disabled persons. We therefore recommend that schools follow the ADA, not state regulations, when an employee requests to use a service dog on campus. 1551 Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA - http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html. 1552 Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA - http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html; Health & Saf. Code, § 121690; Cal. Code Regs., tit. 17, § 2606.4. See also, for example, Los Angeles County Code sections 10.20.190 and 10.20.220 and San Diego County Code sections 62.610 and 62.620. 1553 Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA - http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html. 1554 ADA Requirements – Service Animals - http://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm. 1555 Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA - http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html. 1556 III-4.2300 Service animals., ADATAM III-4.2300; Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA - http://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html. 1557 Gov. Code, § 12940, subd. (n). 1558 Humphrey v. Memorial Hospitals Ass'n (9th Cir. 2001) 239 F.3d 1128, cert. 1559 29 C.F.R. § 1630.9 (appen.). 1560 29 C.F.R. § 1630.9 (appen.). 1561 Jensen v. Wells Fargo Bank (2000) 85 Cal.App.4th 245 [102 Cal.Rptr.2d 55]. 1562 29 C.F.R. § 1630.9 (appen.). 1563 S. Rpt. 101-116, 101st Cong., 1st Sess., p. 35; H. Rpt. 101-485, 101st Cong., 2d Sess., p. 66. 1564 EEOC Publication, “Procedures for Providing Reasonable Accomodation for Individuals with Disabilities”, http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/internal/reasonable_accommodation.cfm. 1565 Cal. Code Regs., tit. 2, § 11069, sub. (c). 1566 H. Rpt. 101-485, 101st Cong., 2d Sess., p. 63. 1567 U.S. Airways, Inc. v. Barnett (2002) 535 U.S. 391 [122 S.Ct. 1516, 152 L.Ed.2d 589]. 1568 Torrez v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. (1997) 58 Cal.App.4th 1247 [68 Cal.Rptr.2d 792]. 1569 Camargo v. California Portland Cement Co. (2001) 86 Cal.App.4th 995 [103 Cal.Rptr.2d 841]. 1570 42 U.S.C. § 12101(8); 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(r).

1571 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(r). 1572 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(r). 1573 Mantolete v. Bolger (9th Cir. 1985) 767 F.2d 1416.

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