ยง 147. Dogs accompanying persons with a disability. Subject to such
rules and regulations as the commissioner may prescribe, all common and
contract carriers of passengers by motor vehicle shall permit a guide
dog, hearing dog or service dog as defined in section forty-seven-b of
the civil rights law accompanying a person with a disability, as defined
in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the
executive law, to accompany, to guide, or otherwise to aid such person,
to ride on all vehicles operated for transportation and no charge shall
be made for the transportation of such dog.