Reference no: EM133291049

Assignment:

MSL Legal Research

Maryland agency rules (regulations) 

In the following questions, you will locate the Maryland regulation(s) addressing the right to be accompanied by a service animal in places of public accommodation.

Question 1. Cite (in Bluebook form) the section of the Code of Maryland Regulations (popularly known as "COMAR", but you should use Bluebook citation form as illustrated under Maryland in Table 1) that requires a place of public accommodation (such as a restaurant) to permit, as a reasonable accommodation, the use of a service animal by an individual with a disability. Describe how you located it.

Question 2. How current is the version of the COMAR section you cited above? How do you know?

Question 3. Does COMAR define the term "service animal" for the purposes of the section you found above? If so, cite the definitions section, and describe how you located it.

Question 4. COMAR does not provide the statutory authority or the "Credits" administrative history in each section of COMAR, but instead provides this information for the entire Chapter in separate sections. Find and cite the COMAR sections that provide this information. Also, cite the statutory authority below.

Question 5. Based on the federal and Maryland regulations, do you think that Ren is a service animal for purposes of your client's access to public accommodations? Thoroughly explain your answer.