The policy is applicable on all University-owned property or areas, including but not limited to: buildings, classrooms, auditoriums, dormitories (including temporary hotel housing), conference rooms, offices, common areas, streets, parking areas, walkways, lawns, and garden areas.

The KSU Accessibility and Disability Resource Center (“ADRC”), in conjunction with the Office of Housing and Residence Life (“OHRL”), is responsible for implementing, facilitating and enforcing this policy and its related processes.

The terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual.

Emotional support animals are companion animals that provide therapeutic benefit, such as alleviating or mitigating some symptoms of the disability, to an individual with a mental or psychiatric disability. Emotional support animals may be considered for access to University housing, but are restricted from many areas of University property. These animals are not explicitly covered under the ADA but are recognized under the FHA.

A person responsible for care, control, and/or behavior of an animal. For service animals, the handler is generally the person with a disability or a third party that accompanies the person with a disability. For emotional support animals, the handler is generally the person that owns the animal. In all other circumstances, the handler is defined as the animal's owner, trainer, or caregiver.

Any tangible, living, animate, sentient, creature that is not otherwise classified as a service animal, service animal in training, or emotional support animal.

Service animals are defined as animals that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include, but are not limited to the following: guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, etc. Animals whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.

An animal that is being trained to do work or perform a task for a person with a disability or disabilities, but has yet to complete required training.

Means the animal is harnessed, leashed, or tethered. If the animal is a service animal and the handler is unable to harness, leash, or tether the animal because of a disability or because the use of such devices would interfere with the animal's safe, effective performance of work or tasks, the service animal will be considered under the handler's control through the use of voice control, signals, or other effective means.