Any person, firm, corporation, or the agent of any person, firm, or corporation who denies or interferes with admittance to or enjoyment of the facilities enumerated in this chapter or otherwise interferes with the rights of a totally or partially blind person, physically disabled person, or deaf person or person engaged in the training or raising of a guide dog or service dog as provided by this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $2,000.00, imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or both.
History. Ga. L. 1955, p. 155, § 2; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1639, § 2; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1131, § 2; Code 1981, § 30-4-4 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1350, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 316, § 2/HB 366.
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For note, “No Pets Allowed: The Need to Address Increasing Abuses of Assistance Animal Regulations Under Federal Law,” see 36 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 939 (2020).