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Washington — service animals in public accommodations (RCW 49.60.215)

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Washington — service animals in public accommodations (RCW 49.60.215)

Washington's RCW 49.60.215 (Law Against Discrimination) makes it an unfair practice to deny a person with a disability the use of a trained dog guide or service animal in places of public resort/accommodation.

Source: Washington RCW 49.60.215 (Unfair practices; trained dog guides and service animals), app.leg.wa.gov, extracted 2026-07-24 via Tokyo relay (Playwright). First-hand statute text; C1 substring-verified against pdf-raw/assistance-animal-law/wa_49_60_215_service_animal.txt.

Verbatim C1 claims (each a substring of the source file):

  1. "RCW 49.60.215"
  2. "Unfair practices of places of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, amusement—Trained dog guides and service animals—Miniature horses—Damage caused by service animal trainee—Control of service animal trainee."
  3. "Refuse or withhold from any person the admission, patronage, custom, presence, frequenting, dwelling, staying, or lodging in any place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, or amusement."
  4. "the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability"