NC General Statutes

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 168-3 (2026)

Right to use of public conveyances, accommodations, etc

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Persons with disabilities are entitled to accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, streetcars, boats, or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation; hotels, lodging places, places of public accommodation, amusement or resort to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons. (1973, c. 493, s. 1; 2005-450, s. 1.)

§§ 168-4 through 168-4.1: Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 514, s. 1.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1979–2000 · leading case: McCullough v. Branch Banking & Trust Co., 524 S.E.2d 569 (N.C. Ct. App. 2000).

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McCullough v. Branch Banking & Trust Co., 524 S.E.2d 569 (N.C. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 2× “Effective 1 October 1999, subsections (4) and (5) of section 168-3 were re-codified as subsections (7a) and (1), respectively, and the terms “[p]erson with a disability” and “disabling condition” were substituted for “handicapped person” and “handicapping condition,”…”

Burgess v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co., 259 S.E.2d 248 (N.C. 1979). “— Every visually handicapped person shall have the right to be accompanied by a guide dog, especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places listed in G.S. 168-3 provided that he shall *525 be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by such dog.”

Burgess v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co., 250 S.E.2d 687 (N.C. Ct. App. 1979). · cites it 2× “—Every visually handicapped person shall have the right to be accompanied by a guide dog, especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places listed in G.S. 168-3 provided that he shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by such dog.”

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