PRINTER'S NO. 2184
No. 1814 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY LASHINGER, J. L. WRIGHT, MILLER, STEWART,
SALVATORE, KOWALYSHYN, RASCO, RYBAK, PISTELLA, PETRARCA,
ALDEN, JOHNSON, LEVIN, KUKOVICH, ARMSTRONG, DAWIDA, BELFANTI,
MERRY, BOWSER, COLAFELLA, MORRIS, IRVIS, GRIECO, NAHILL,
ITKIN, BURD, BLAUM, ZWIKL AND GRAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for offenses against a
3 person using a guide dog because of deafness.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 7325 of Title 18, act of November 25,
7 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, is amended to read:
9 § 7325. Discrimination on account of guide dog.
10 A person is guilty of a summary offense if he, being the
11 proprietor, manager or employee of a theatre, hotel, restaurant
12 or other place of public entertainment or amusement, refuses,
13 withholds or denies any [blind] person, who is using a [seeing
14 eye] guide dog, because of the blindness or deafness of the
15 user, the use of or access to any accommodation, advantage,
16 facility or privilege of such theatre, hotel, restaurant or
17 other place of public entertainment or amusement.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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