Ohio Revised Code|Section 955.011 | Registration for guide, leader, hearing or support dogs to be free and permanent.

                                                
(A) When an application is made for  registration of an assistance dog and the owner can show proof by  certificate or other means that the dog is an assistance dog, the  owner of the dog shall be exempt from any fee for the  registration. Registration for an assistance dog shall be  permanent and not subject to annual renewal so long as the dog is  an assistance dog. Certificates and tags stamped "Ohio Assistance  Dog-Permanent Registration," with registration number, shall be  issued upon registration of such a dog. Any certificate and tag  stamped "Ohio Guide Dog-Permanent Registration" or "Ohio Hearing  Dog-Permanent Registration," with registration number, that was  issued for a dog in accordance with this section as it existed  prior to July 4, 1984, any certificate and tag stamped "Ohio  Handicapped Assistance Dog-Permanent Registration," with  registration number, that was issued for a dog in accordance with  this section as it existed on and after July 5, 1984, but prior to  November 26, 2004, and any certificate and tag stamped "Ohio  Service Dog-Permanent Registration," with registration number,  that was issued for a dog in accordance with this section as it  existed on and after November 26, 2004, but prior to June 30,  2006, shall remain in effect as valid proof of the registration of  the dog on and after November 26, 2004. Duplicate certificates and  tags for a dog registered in accordance with this section, upon  proper proof of loss, shall be issued and no fee required. Each  duplicate certificate and tag that is issued shall be stamped  "Ohio Assistance Dog-Permanent Registration." 
(B) As used in this section and in sections 955.16 and 955.43  of the Revised Code:
(1) "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  any other form of support, or that limits the person's functional  ability to ambulate, climb, descend, sit, rise, or perform any  related function. "Mobility impaired person" includes a person  with a neurological or psychological disability that limits the  person's functional ability to ambulate, climb, descend, sit,  rise, or perform any related function. "Mobility impaired person"  also includes a person with a seizure disorder and a person who is  diagnosed with autism.
(2) "Blind" means either of the following:
(a) Vision twenty/two hundred or less in the better eye with  proper correction;
(b) Field defect in the better eye with proper correction  that contracts the peripheral field so that the diameter of the  visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees.
(3) "Assistance dog" means a guide dog, hearing dog, or  service dog that has been trained by a nonprofit special agency.
(4) "Guide dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in  training to assist a blind person.
(5) "Hearing dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in  training to assist a deaf or hearing-impaired person.
(6) "Service dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in  training to assist a mobility impaired person.