"BEWARE, TONIGHT THIS ESTABLISHMENT UNLAWFULLY REFUSED SERVICE TO SOMEONE WHO REQUIRES A SEEING EYE DOG AND PRODUCED DOCUMENTATION TO THE FACT. Title 31. Welfare. Part II. Welfare Agencies. Chapter 21. Delaware Commission for the Blind. § 2117 . Relating to the blind and “seeing eye dogs ”; penalties. § 2117. Repealed by 83 Laws 2022, ch. 460, § 1, eff. Oct. 14, 2022 Former text: (a) Any person who by reason of loss or impairment of eyesight or hearing is accompanied by a dog described as a “seeing eye dog,” or any dog educated by a recognized training agency or school, which is used as a leader or guide, is entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of all public conveyances, hotels, lodging places, all places of public accommodation, amusement or resort and other places to which the general public is invited and shall be entitled to take the dog into such conveyances and places, subject only to the conditions and limitations applicable to all persons not so accompanied; provided, that the dog shall not occupy a seat in any public conveyance. (b) Any person, firm or corporation who deprives any person suffering from such loss or impairment of eyesight or hearing of any right conferred by subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than $100, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 3 months, or both and for every such offense such person shall forfeit and pay a sum of not more than $100 to any person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. CREDIT(S) 57 Laws 1969, ch. 162; 64 Laws 1984, ch. 389, §§ 4, 5; 78 Laws 2011, ch. 179, § 346, eff. Aug. 17, 2011."
