Section 167-D:1 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
I. ""Deaf or hearing impaired person'' means any person whose hearing is so severely impaired that he is unable to hear and understand normal conversational speech through the unaided ear alone, and who must depend primarily on supportive devices or visual communication such as writing, lip reading, sign language, and gestures.
II. ""Hearing ear dog trainer'' means any person who is employed by an organization generally recognized by agencies involved in the rehabilitation of deaf and hearing impaired as reputable and competent to provide dogs with training, and who is actually involved in the training process.
III. ""Housing accommodation'' means any publicly assisted housing accommodation or any real property, or portion thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, but shall not include any single family residence the occupants of which rent, lease, or furnish for compensation not more than one room therein.
IV. ""Public facility'' means any place of public accommodation and any street, highway, sidewalk, walkway, public building, and any other place or structure to which the general public is regularly, normally or customarily permitted or invited.
V. A ""place of public accommodation'' shall mean, but shall not be limited to, any tavern roadhouse, hotel, motel, trailer camp, whether for entertainment of transient guests or accommodation of those seeking health, recreation or rest; any producer, manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, retail shop, store establishment, or concession dealing with goods or services of any kind; any restaurant, eating house or place where food is sold for consumption on the premises; any place maintained for the sale of ice cream, ice and fruit preparations or their derivatives, soda water or confections, or where any beverages of any kind are retailed for consumption on the premises; any garage; any public conveyance operated on land or water, or in the air, or any stations and terminals thereof; any bathhouse, boardwalk, or seashore accommodation; any auditorium, meeting place, or hall; any theatre, motion picture house, music hall, roof garden, skating rink, swimming pool, amusement and recreation park, fair, bowling alley, gymnasium, shooting gallery, billiard and pool parlor, or any other place of amusement; any comfort station; any dispensary, clinic or hospital; any public library; any kindergarten, primary and secondary school, trade or business school, high school, academy, college and university, or any educational institution under the supervision of the state board of education, or the commissioner of education of the state of New Hampshire.
VI. ""Blind or visually impaired person'' means any person whose vision is so severely impaired that he is unable to see adequately, and who must rely primarily on supportive devices such as a white cane, or on Braille symbols.
VII. ""Guide dog trainer'' means any person who is employed by an organization generally recognized by agencies involved in the rehabilitation of blind and visually impaired as reputable and competent to provide dogs with training, and who is actually involved in the training process.
VIII. ""Mobility impaired person'' means any person, regardless of age, who is subject to a physiological defect or deficiency regardless of its cause, nature or extent that renders the person unable to move about without the aid of crutches, a wheelchair or other form of support, or that limits the person's functional ability to ambulate, climb, descend, sit, rise, or perform any related function.
IX. ""Service dog'' means a dog who works for a mobility impaired person or a person with a seizure disorder diagnosed by a physician.
X. ""Service dog trainer'' means any person who is employed by an organization generally recognized by agencies involved in the rehabilitation of mobility impaired persons as reputable and competent to provide dogs with training, and who is actually involved in the training process.
XI. ""Search and rescue dog'' means any dog which has been trained to perform typical search and rescue operations and is certified by a competent authority or holds a title from a competent authority or organization recognized by the office of the governor, department of safety, department of fish and game, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency or its successor agency.
Source. 1983, 275:1. 1987, 404:24. 1989, 45:2. 1990, 131:4. 1996, 256:4, eff. June 10, 1996. 2008, 214:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.