Applies to 

Guide, Hearing, and Service Dogs

Accessibility

“. . . full and equal accommodations, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motorbuses, streetcars, boats, other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, eating places, places of public accommodation, amusement, or resort, and other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.”

Interference

simple misdemeanor

Housing

“A deaf or hard-of-hearing person has the right to be accompanied by a hearing dog, under control and especially trained at a recognized training facility to assist the deaf or hard-of-hearing . . . without being required to make additional payment for the hearing dog. A landlord shall waive lease restrictions on the keeping of dogs for a deaf or hard-of-hearing person with a hearing dog. The deaf or hard-of-hearing person is liable for damage done to any premise or facility by a hearing dog.”

Licenses/Fees

not mentioned

Identification

not mentioned

Misrepresentation

not mentioned

Trainers/Training

same rights as disabled person; “‘Assistive animal’ means a simian or other animal specially trained or in the process of being trained under the auspices of a recognized training facility to assist a person with a disability.”

White Cane

precautionary statute; White Cane Safety Day is October 15.

Injury to Dog

not mentioned

Penalties

guilty of misdemeanor

Summary

Iowa law requires that a specially trained Assistance Dog be allowed to accompany a blind, deaf, or disabled person or trainer to all public accommodations and common carriers. Extra charges cannot be made due to the presence of the dog, but if the dog causes damage to the premises, the dog user is liable.