{"id":62618,"date":"2015-11-04T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62618"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:18:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:18:42","slug":"michigan-protects-service-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62618","title":{"rendered":"Michigan protects service animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/upnorthlive.com\/news\/local\/gov-snyder-signs-bill-protecting-use-of-service-animals\">UpNorthLive<\/a>, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation that protects service animals and their owners in the state. In addition to adding protections for veterans with PTS and their animals, it makes it a misdemeanor to falsely represent your animal to be a service animal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Bill 298, sponsored by state Sen. David Knezek, now makes it a crime to refuse entry to a person using a service animal or to assault a service animal. The bill is now Public Act 144.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 299, sponsered by state Sen. Margaret O&#8217;Brien, exempts dogs from licensing fees if they are a serice animal to someone with a disability or veteran with a service-related disability. The bill is now Public Act 145. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 4527, sponsored by state Rep. David Rutledge, makes it a misdemeanor to falsely represent a service animal, and brings state law more in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act with respect to the definitions of &#8220;person with a disability&#8221; and &#8220;service animal&#8221;. It also specifically permits veterans to possess a service animal for post-traumatic stress disorder, a traumatic brain injury, or other service-related disability. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/documents\/2015-2016\/billengrossed\/House\/htm\/2015-HEBH-4527.htm\">the bill<\/a>, falsely representing your animal as a service animal, will earn you a $500 fine (the fine was $10), 90 days in jail and 30 days of community service. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen an explosion of valor thieves who use a service to validate their claims, so maybe if more states enacted these types of laws, that would reduce stolen valor, somewhat. Every little bit helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to UpNorthLive, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation that protects service animals and their owners &hellip; <a title=\"Michigan protects service animals\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62618\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michigan protects service animals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}