For the purpose of this article: (a) A "person who is blind" means a person whose central visual acuity does not exceed twenty/two hundred in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose visual acuity is greater than twenty/two hundred but is occasioned by a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees. (b) A "person with a disability" means any person who has a physuical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual; who has a record of such an impairment or who is regarded as having such an impairment. (c) A "service animal" means any guide dog, signal doga or other animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including, but not limited to, guiding individuals with impaired vislion, alerting individuals with impaired hearing to intruders or sounds, providing minsimal protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair or fetching dropped items.
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