{"id":913,"date":"2008-06-26T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T19:34:08","slug":"ask-steve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Steve:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law says that animals aren\u2019t allowed into the facility unless they are seeing-eye dogs. I was asked, \u201cWhat do we do in this situation? If we follow Texas state law, we violate the ADA. If we follow the ADA, we violate Texas state law.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/smarttan.epubxpress.com\/link\/tant\/2008\/jul\/56?s=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;..READ MORE<\/a> <!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.gif\" title=\"ask_steve1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"ask_steve1.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tt-biz"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ask Steve: - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law says that animals aren\u2019t allowed into the facility unless they are seeing-eye dogs. I was asked, \u201cWhat do we do in this situation? If we follow Texas state law, we violate the ADA. If we follow the ADA, we violate Texas state law.\u201d.....READ MORE\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ask Steve: - Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law says that animals aren\u2019t allowed into the facility unless they are seeing-eye dogs. I was asked, \u201cWhat do we do in this situation? If we follow Texas state law, we violate the ADA. If we follow the ADA, we violate Texas state law.\u201d.....READ MORE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Smart Tan News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-06-26T19:34:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"smarttan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmartTan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SmartTan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"smarttan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"smarttan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b\"},\"headline\":\"Ask Steve:\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-06-26T19:34:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/\"},\"wordCount\":103,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif\",\"articleSection\":[\"Tanning Trends Extra\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/\",\"name\":\"Ask Steve: - Smart Tan News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-06-26T19:34:08+00:00\",\"description\":\"Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law says that animals aren\u2019t allowed into the facility unless they are seeing-eye dogs. I was asked, \u201cWhat do we do in this situation? If we follow Texas state law, we violate the ADA. If we follow the ADA, we violate Texas state law.\u201d.....READ MORE\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ask Steve:\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/\",\"name\":\"Smart Tan News\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Smart Tan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":164,\"caption\":\"Smart Tan\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b\",\"name\":\"smarttan\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"smarttan\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ask Steve: - Smart Tan News","description":"Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law says that animals aren\u2019t allowed into the facility unless they are seeing-eye dogs. I was asked, \u201cWhat do we do in this situation? If we follow Texas state law, we violate the ADA. If we follow the ADA, we violate Texas state law.\u201d.....READ MORE","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ask Steve: - Smart Tan News","og_description":"Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law says that animals aren\u2019t allowed into the facility unless they are seeing-eye dogs. I was asked, \u201cWhat do we do in this situation? If we follow Texas state law, we violate the ADA. If we follow the ADA, we violate Texas state law.\u201d.....READ MORE","og_url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/","og_site_name":"Smart Tan News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","article_published_time":"2008-06-26T19:34:08+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"smarttan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmartTan","twitter_site":"@SmartTan","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"smarttan","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/"},"author":{"name":"smarttan","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b"},"headline":"Ask Steve:","datePublished":"2008-06-26T19:34:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/"},"wordCount":103,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif","articleSection":["Tanning Trends Extra"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/","name":"Ask Steve: - Smart Tan News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif","datePublished":"2008-06-26T19:34:08+00:00","description":"Q: A Palm Beach Tan franchisee in Texas had a woman enter their facility, demanding that her two tiny dogs be allowed into the tanning room with her. She claimed that they were seizure alert dogs. The customer was informed that technically the dogs were not even allowed in the facility because Texas State law says that animals aren\u2019t allowed into the facility unless they are seeing-eye dogs. I was asked, \u201cWhat do we do in this situation? If we follow Texas state law, we violate the ADA. If we follow the ADA, we violate Texas state law.\u201d.....READ MORE","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ask_steve1.thumbnail.gif"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/ask-steve-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ask Steve:"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","name":"Smart Tan News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#organization","name":"Smart Tan","url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Smart-Tan.png","width":500,"height":164,"caption":"Smart Tan"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SmartTan","https:\/\/x.com\/SmartTan"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4191f4b1131c0a37b4fd39f876771e7b","name":"smarttan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60bebff64d4c62315967b9126de927b81d5a9d9511fd52f9dbe9e8b344149182?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"smarttan"},"url":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/author\/smarttan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}