Opinion No. (1985)

Dear Honorable Stottlemyre,

The Attorney General has received your request for an official opinion asking, in effect:

Do the provisions of 7 O.S. 19.1 (1985) provide that employers must allow blind employees to keep their guide dogs with them at their place of employment, while they are working?

Title 7 O.S. 19.1 (1985), reads in part:

"A. Any blind, deaf, or physically handicapped person who is a passenger on any common carrier, airplane, motor vehicle, railroad train, motorbus, streetcar, boat, or any other public conveyance or mode of transportation operating within the State of Oklahoma shall…