Dealing with emotional disabilities seems difficult when you have no one around you. You’re new to that place or that country, you don’t even have a friend there. In that kind of situation, medications can’t do their job effectively. An emotional support animal can help that person in that kind of lonely situation.
An emotional support animal provides therapeutic benefits to a person who is facing mental or emotional health issues. If you’re thinking about service animals while reading this article, let me correct you. Service animals and ESAs are not the same. Service animals are especially trained to assist those people who are either physically or mentally disabled. ESAs do not require any special training. They should be well-behaved and harmless so that they can’t damage someone’s property.
Government of Ohio knows the value of emotional support animals in healing a person’s mental health. So they passed several laws in order to protect ESA Owners and ESAs from discrimination. Here take a glimpse at Ohio Emotional Support Animal Laws.
ESA Housing Laws in Ohio
The fair housing act was passed to protect an ESA Owner and ESA from landlord discrimination against disabilities. According to this law, a landlord can’t stop a person from living in a rental property with ESA, even if there is no pet allowed policy. Also landlords can’t charge extra rent for living with an ESA in their property.
If an ESA is not well behaved and is harmful for neighbors or landlord, the landlord can deny the request of living with ESA.
Employment Laws in Ohio
In Ohio, an ESA Owner doesn’t have any legal right to bring an ESA to the workplace. Employers also don’t have the legal permission to let you bring your ESA in the office. Some employers still let a person keep their ESA while working.
Ohio’s exceptions to the rules
In Ohio, if a person owns a pet, that person must also meet certain qualifications for an emotional support animal. Any pet you maintain must be well-mannered, healthy, and given proper care by its owners. For a pet to act properly, its owner must give it some fundamental instruction. The legislation waives the animal’s rights as an ESA, so it cannot be disruptive, rowdy, or distracted. The animal’s status as an ESA cannot be established by the owner’s simply verbal assurances. You must provide the landlord with a valid ESA letter that has been examined by a qualified mental health expert.
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