1. Pets are domesticated animals, such as a dog, cat, or bird. It is
traditionally kept in the home for pleasure rather than for commercial
purposes.
• A pet deposit of $200 (two hundred dollars) is required for each
pet.
• A resident shall have no more than two pets.
• A pet shall weigh no more than 20 pounds at full maturity.
• Pets will be required to have proof of inoculation records in
accordance with Mississippi State regulations.
2. An Assistance animal is an animal that works, provides assistance, or
performs tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability, or provides
emotional support that alleviates one or more identified symptoms or
effects of a person’s disability. Assistance animals perform many disabilityrelated functions, including but not limited to, guiding individuals who are
blind or have low vision, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of
hearing to sounds, providing protection or rescue assistance, pulling a
wheelchair, fetching items, alerting persons to impending seizures, or
providing emotional support to persons with disabilities who have a
disability-related need for such support. Some, but not all, animals that
assist persons with disabilities are professionally trained. Other assistance
animals are trained by the owners themselves and, in some cases, no
special training is required. The question is whether or not the animal
performs the assistance or provides the benefit needed as a reasonable
accommodation by the person with the disability.
• Persons with disabilities may request a reasonable
accommodation for any assistance animal, including emotional
support animal.
• After receiving such a request, management must consider the
following:
(I) Does the person seeking to use and live with the animal have a
disability — i.e., a physical or mental impairment that substantially
limits one or more major life activities?
(2) Does the person making the request have a disability-related
need for an assistance animal? In other words, does the animal
work, provide assistance, perform tasks or services for the benefit of
a person with a disability, or provide emotional support that
alleviates one or more of the identified symptoms or effects of a
person's existing disability?
(3) If the disability is not readily apparent, management will require
a third party verifier to state that the animal will provide emotional
support that alleviates one or more of the identified symptoms or
effects of an existing disability.
• A verified assistance animal requires no deposit.
• Assistance animals will be required to have proof of inoculation
records in accordance with Mississippi State regulations.
3. A service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do
work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability,
including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other
mental disability.
4. Emotional support, therapy, comfort, or companion animals are
animals that provide comfort just by being with a person. These
support animals provide companionship, relieve loneliness, and
sometimes help with depression, anxiety, and certain phobias, but
do not have special training to perform tasks that assist people with
disabilities.
*Assistance Animals are sometimes referred to as “service animals”,
“support animals”, “therapy animals”, or “emotional support animals”