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Can a landlord charge for a pet in Arizona, and what does the law require for an assistance animal?

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In Arizona a pet deposit is part of the ordinary security deposit, and everything a landlord holds as security may not exceed one and a half months' rent.

Cited to A.R.S. § 33-1321 (A), (B), (D), (E) and 22 more cited sources · Verified September 21, 2026

There is no pet allowance on top of that ceiling, which is the most common mistake made about Arizona. Monthly pet rent and one-time pet fees are lawful and uncapped, and a fee is non-refundable only if the landlord states its purpose in writing. No lease has to state a pet policy, and a landlord may add or tighten a pet rule mid-tenancy on thirty days' notice as long as the change is not a substantial modification of the agreement. Arizona has no assistance-animal housing statute: it defines an assistance animal broadly, including an untrained animal giving emotional support, but the only rule that uses the term protects the landlord, giving immunity for injuries or damage caused by a purported assistance or service animal allowed as an accommodation. The state sets no documentation rule and bars no charge, so the federal rules and the state duty to make reasonable accommodations do that work. Faking a service animal is an offense only in a public place, not to a landlord. Housing owned or managed by a public agency is different: pets must be allowed for elderly tenants and tenants with disabilities, and the pet deposit there is capped at one month's rent.

Arizona pets & assistance animals at a glance

Which law governs The money and lease answers sit in the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, title 33, chapter 10: section 33-1310 defines security, section 33-1321 caps it and conditions non-refundable fees, section 33-1314 governs lease terms and a deceased or incapacitated tenant's animal, section 33-1342 governs rules adopted after signing, and section 33-1368 makes a false pet answer on the application a curable breach. The assistance-animal answer is the Arizona Fair Housing Act, title 41, chapter 9, article 7: the reasonable-accommodation duty in section 41-1491.19 and the definitions and landlord immunity in sections 41-1491 and 41-1491.38. The misrepresentation offense and the two-question rule are in the counties title, section 11-1024, and reach only a public place. The breed clauses are in the cities and counties titles and the insurance title, and the pet rules for housing owned or managed by a public agency are in section 36-1409.01, which sits outside the landlord-tenant act altogether.
Where in the state the answers differ Every money and lease duty is statewide and unconditioned by unit count: the deposit cap has no small-landlord exemption. Three divisions matter anyway. First, the landlord-tenant act does not reach occupancy in or operation of public housing conducted under title 36, chapter 12, or under any federal law or regulation (section 33-1308, paragraph 7), so in that housing the deposit cap does not apply and section 36-1409.01 governs instead. Second, the fair-housing accommodation duty does not bind an owner who rents a single-family house and owns no more than three at a time and uses no broker or advertisement, limited to one rental in any twenty-four month period where the owner was not the most recent resident, nor an owner-occupied building of no more than four families (section 41-1491.02); religious organizations, private clubs and qualifying housing for older persons are also outside it. Third, the landlord immunity in section 41-1491.38 sits outside the range those exemptions reach, so it protects every landlord in the state, including one the accommodation duty does not bind.
Which landlords are covered Every residential landlord, with no unit threshold and no owner-occupied exemption in the money rules. The landlord-tenant act's own exclusions are seven arrangements listed in section 33-1308: public housing under title 36, chapter 12, or under federal law; an institutional residence incidental to detention or to medical, educational, counseling or religious service, or to a social-service program; occupancy under a contract of sale; quarters in a fraternal or social organization; transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or recreational lodging; a manager or custodian whose occupancy depends on employment; and an owner of a condominium unit or the holder of a proprietary lease in a cooperative. The fair-housing accommodation duty binds a narrower set, and rental housing owned, operated, managed or contracted for by a public agency has its own pet rules, stated as a separate row below.
Pet deposit

Yes — no pet figure exists, but a pet deposit is a security deposit however it is named and counts inside the general deposit cap.

Arizona has no pet-deposit statute for the private market, and no separate pet allowance on top of the ordinary cap — the single most repeated error about Arizona. A refundable pet deposit is money given to assure payment or performance under the rental agreement, which is what security means (section 33-1310, paragraph 15), and the cap in section 33-1321 reaches security however denominated, so a pet deposit counts inside the one-and-a-half-month ceiling along with the ordinary deposit and any prepaid rent. The same machinery applies to it: on termination, delivery of possession and the tenant's demand, the landlord owes an itemized list of deductions within fourteen days excluding weekends and legal holidays, a tenant who does not dispute within sixty days waives further claims, and a landlord who does not comply owes the property and money due plus damages equal to twice the amount wrongfully withheld (subsections D and E). Whether a pet fee designated in writing as non-refundable sits outside the ceiling is a reading the statute implies rather than states, and no Arizona appellate decision has tested it. In rental housing owned, operated, managed or contracted for by a public agency the act does not apply at all, and a different ceiling governs, stated as a separate row.

Refundability: A pet deposit is refundable unless the landlord designates it otherwise in writing. The purpose of all non-refundable fees or deposits must be stated in writing by the landlord, and any fee or deposit not designated as non-refundable is refundable (section 33-1321, subsection B).

The general deposit cap it sits against: One and one-half month's rent for everything the landlord takes as security: a landlord may not demand or receive security, however denominated, including prepaid rent, in an amount or value of more than one and one-half month's rent, though a tenant may voluntarily pay more rent in advance (section 33-1321, subsection A). The deposits page carries the general cap and its return rules.
Pet rent and pet fees

Yes — pet rent or a pet fee may be charged, and no statute caps it.

No Arizona statute mentions a pet deposit, pet rent or a pet fee; the words appear nowhere in the whole property title. Pet money is therefore ordinary lease money: a charge held as security counts inside the one-and-a-half-month ceiling, a charge designated in writing as a non-refundable fee is non-refundable, and a monthly pet charge is rent. There is no cap on pet rent, no reasonableness standard on any fee and no statutory schedule of fees a landlord must publish — bills to create one have been introduced in every session since 2020 and none has become law. In housing owned or managed by a public agency, a different rule constrains the price of keeping a pet, and it is stated as a separate row.

Monthly pet rent: Monthly pet rent is an ordinary lease term and is not capped. The landlord and tenant may include in a rental agreement terms and conditions not prohibited by the act or any other law, including rent, the term of the agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties (section 33-1314, subsection A). Arizona sets no figure, no percentage and no reasonableness test for it.

A one-time pet fee: A one-time pet fee is lawful, refundable or not. Arizona does not bar non-refundable fees; it sets a disclosure condition instead — the purpose of every non-refundable fee or deposit must be stated in writing, and anything not designated as non-refundable is refundable (section 33-1321, subsection B). A fee the landlord does not designate in writing is a refundable deposit inside the general cap.
Pet policy in the lease, and changing it mid-tenancy

No — but a written-rules or mid-term-change provision would govern a pet rule the landlord adopts.

No Arizona statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, supplies a default when the lease is silent, or limits the number of animals in the private market; the lease governs, and the act's rules section governs a pet rule the landlord adopts later. Two pet-specific default rules do exist. Untrue or misleading information about pets on the rental application is named in the statute as material falsification and so as material noncompliance, which the landlord may act on by written notice terminating the agreement not less than ten days later if the breach is not remedied within ten days (section 33-1368, subsection A, paragraph 1). And if a tenant dies or becomes incapacitated, a person the tenant named to retrieve the tenant's property, including the tenant's animal, has one calendar day to respond for the animal and ten days for everything else; after that the landlord may deem the animal abandoned, and must then release it to an animal shelter or boarding facility, keep a record of where it went, provide reasonable care in the meantime, and, if unable or unwilling to do so, notify the county enforcement agent or an animal control officer (section 33-1314, subsections E to G, and section 33-1370, subsection E). In housing owned or managed by a public agency, pets must be allowed for elderly tenants and tenants with disabilities, and the agency may set number limits; that is a separate row.

Changing the rule mid-tenancy: A landlord may from time to time adopt rules concerning the tenant's use and occupancy of the premises, and a rule is enforceable only if, among other conditions, it is reasonably related to the purpose for which it was adopted, applies to all tenants fairly, and was known to the tenant when the rental agreement was signed (section 33-1342, subsection A). A rule adopted after the tenant signs is enforceable if the landlord gives thirty days' notice of its adoption and the rule does not constitute a substantial modification of the rental agreement (subsection B). That is the limit on introducing or tightening a pet rule mid-tenancy. A landlord may also amend immediately to conform to a new governmental requirement, with written notice and a brief description (subsection C).
Breed, size and weight restrictions

Yes.

No Arizona statute restricts, authorizes or preempts a residential landlord's breed, size or weight rule. A landlord may refuse a breed, and there is no carve-out saying an assistance animal may not be refused on breed — where the federal accommodation duty and the state accommodation clause apply, they do that work instead. Arizona does have three breed clauses, and none of them is a housing rule. A city or town may regulate the control of dogs only if the regulation is not specific to any breed (section 9-499.04, subsection C), and a county may contract to enforce a city ordinance only on the same condition (section 11-1005, subsection A, paragraph 3); both conditions were added in 2016. And the breed of a dog, meaning its actual or perceived breed or mixture of breeds, may not be considered by a court, administrative law judge, hearing officer, arbitrator or other decision-maker in deciding whether a dog is aggressive or vicious or has created liability (section 11-1025, subsection C), which sits beside the rule making a dog's owner liable for a bite regardless of the dog's former viciousness or the owner's knowledge of it. Two bills to restrict breed rules in rental property, one in 2024 and one in 2025, both died.
Assistance animals: the state instrument and who it binds

Only through the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation duty, the sole state instrument reaching assistance animals in housing; no state text sets a documentation standard. The operative rules are statutory. State law incorporates a federal statute or codified regulation by reference.

Arizona has no assistance-animal housing statute of its own. The operative duty is the state fair-housing act's accommodation clause: discrimination includes a refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services if the accommodations may be necessary to afford the person equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling (section 41-1491.19, subsection E, paragraph 2), and nothing in the section requires a dwelling to be made available to a person whose tenancy would be a direct threat to the health or safety of others or would result in substantial physical damage to the property of others (subsection C). Since September 26, 2025 one more section speaks to animals, and it protects the landlord rather than the tenant: notwithstanding any other law, a landlord is not liable for injuries or damages caused by a purported assistance animal or purported service animal that is allowed as a reasonable accommodation or a reasonable modification on property the landlord owns or controls, and the section does not limit or abridge the rights of a person with a disability otherwise given by the act (section 41-1491.38). That is an immunity, not a housing right: it says nothing about what a landlord may ask, what a provider must certify, or what may be charged. Arizona sets no documentation rule, no presumption, no written-answer duty and no charge bar, so a tenant's protection in Arizona is the accommodation duty plus the federal rules.

Who it binds: The accommodation duty sits in the run of sections the Fair Housing Act's exemptions reach, so it does not bind the sale or rental of a single-family house by an owner who owns no more than three at any one time and rents without a broker and without an advertisement — and that exemption is good for only one rental in any twenty-four month period where the owner was not the most recent resident of the house — nor the rental of rooms or units in a building occupied or intended for no more than four families where the owner lives in one of them (section 41-1491.02). Religious organizations and private clubs are outside the act (section 41-1491.03), and housing for older persons has its own exemption (section 41-1491.04). The landlord immunity in section 41-1491.38 is outside the exempted run and so reaches every landlord in the state, including one the accommodation duty does not bind: Arizona gives the narrower duty and the broader immunity. Separately, the landlord-tenant act does not reach public housing conducted under title 36, chapter 12, or under federal law.
What counts as an assistance animal Arizona's fair-housing definitions are broad and were both added in 2025. An assistance animal means a trained or untrained animal that works, provides assistance, performs tasks or provides therapeutic or emotional support for the benefit of a person with a disability (section 41-1491, paragraph 2) — it reaches an untrained animal and an emotional support animal on its face, and it is the broadest state definition of the term. A service animal means any dog or miniature horse individually trained or in training to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, and does not include other species, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained (paragraph 12). Disability takes the meaning the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 give it, by name (paragraph 6). A second and narrower service-animal definition lives in the counties title and belongs to the public-place rules, not to housing: there the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort or companionship is expressly not work or a task (section 11-1024). The two definitions do different jobs and should not be read across.
Documentation a landlord may request, and what a certifier must meet

No state text sets a documentation standard for an assistance animal in housing.

Arizona sets no documentation rule for an assistance animal in housing. No statute and no rule says what a landlord may ask, who may write a letter, whether a telehealth visit counts, how long a treatment relationship must have run, whether an Internet certificate is worth anything, whether a landlord may require its own form or demand medical records, or how fast a landlord must answer a request. What a landlord may ask in Arizona is what the federal rules allow, and the state adds nothing. The one place Arizona does name a certifier is a different right in different housing: in rental housing owned or managed by a public agency, the disability that carries the right to keep a pet must be verified by a signed statement of a licensed allopathic or osteopathic physician, which is stated in the separate row below and is not an assistance-animal rule.
Charges for an assistance animal

Under state law, yes — no state text bars a charge for an assistance animal; the federal rules alone govern it.

No Arizona statute bars a deposit, a fee or pet rent for an assistance animal or a service animal in housing. The one charge bar in Arizona text is scoped to a public place, meaning an office or place of business or recreation to which the general public is invited: there it is discrimination to attempt to impose a charge, fee or deposit because an individual with a disability is accompanied by a service animal, to require disability-related information beyond the two permitted questions, or to require identification for the animal (section 11-1024). A leased dwelling is not a public place, the section's duty-holder is a person or entity that operates one, and the discriminatory actions it borrows come from the public-accommodations section of the Arizonans with Disabilities Act, whose own closed list of public accommodations does not include residential rental housing. Two further fee bars are about dog licenses, not housing: a city or town, and a county, may not charge a license fee for a service animal, a service animal in training or a search-and-rescue dog. What stops a charge for an assistance animal in an Arizona tenancy is therefore the accommodation duty and the federal rules, not a state charge bar.
Damage caused by an assistance animal

No state text addresses damage caused by an assistance animal in housing.

Landlord immunity: Arizona gives the landlord a statutory immunity, and it is wide. Notwithstanding any other law, a landlord is not liable for injuries or damages caused by a purported assistance animal or purported service animal that is allowed as a reasonable accommodation or a reasonable modification on the landlord's property or within property the landlord controls; the section adds that it does not limit or abridge the rights of a person with a disability otherwise given by the fair-housing article (section 41-1491.38). It took effect on September 26, 2025, it uses the word purported rather than requiring the animal to qualify, and no Arizona court has yet construed it. Arizona says nothing either way about the tenant's own liability for damage an assistance animal does, so the ordinary lease and deposit rules and the general law of damage are what remain.
Misrepresenting an assistance animal

None in housing — the only offense is scoped to public accommodations and does not reach housing.

Arizona's misrepresentation offense does not reach housing, and a reader who finds the $250 figure elsewhere should know why. A person may not fraudulently misrepresent an animal as a service animal or a service animal in training to a person or entity that operates a public place, and a court or hearing officer may impose a civil penalty of not more than $250 for each violation (section 11-1024, subsection K). A public place is defined in the same section as an office or place of business or recreation to which the general public is invited, including forms of conveyance; a landlord letting a dwelling is not one, and the section borrows its discriminatory acts from the public-accommodations part of the Arizonans with Disabilities Act, whose closed list excludes residential rentals. A tenant who misrepresents an animal to a landlord therefore commits no Arizona offense, and no warning is required for the offense that does exist. Two smaller offenses sit in dog licensing and also stop short of housing: a false statement on a city or county service-animal license application is a petty offense with a fine of up to $50. The state criminal code creates no assistance-animal fraud offense of any kind.

Enforcement: A court or a duly appointed hearing officer imposes the penalty, and the section says it is not intended to affect any civil remedies otherwise available for a violation (section 11-1024, subsections K and L). Arizona attaches no licensing discipline to anyone who writes a letter: the whole professions and occupations title carries no assistance-animal, service-animal, support-animal or emotional-support provision at all.
Can cities add their own rules

In part — state law preempts the kinds of local rule named as barred, and any power named is one state law grants.

Arizona limits what local government may do about dogs and says nothing about local pet rules in housing. A city or town may regulate the control of dogs only if the regulation is not specific to any breed, and a county may contract to enforce a city's dog ordinance only on the same condition, both since 2016; no Arizona city may therefore pass a breed-specific dog ordinance. Nothing in the landlord-tenant act preempts or authorizes a local ordinance about pet deposits, pet rent or pet policies, and no Arizona city has adopted one. The fair-housing devolution in the state act is a separate thing and is recorded beside the breed limit, not as the answer: it lets the attorney general refer complaints to a large city with a substantially equivalent ordinance, and its adoption window closed on January 1, 1995, which on the 1990 census reached Phoenix and Tucson only. Two other state clauses a reader may meet are not local authority either: the bar on a decision-maker considering a dog's breed in an aggression or liability finding, and the bar on a city or county charging a license fee for a service animal.

Breed-specific local animal-control rules barred: A city or town may regulate the control of dogs only if the regulation is not specific to any breed. The condition was added in 2016 and is written as a limit on the municipal power rather than as a repeal of existing ordinances. Text: A.R.S. § 9-499.04 · (C).

Breed-specific local animal-control rules barred, a second instrument: A county board of supervisors may contract with a city or town to enforce that city's dog-control ordinance only if the ordinance is not specific to any breed, which carries the same limit into county enforcement. Text: A.R.S. § 11-1005 · (A)(3).

The fair-housing act preserves or devolves local ordinances: The fair-housing article does not stop a political subdivision from administering fair housing projects, or a city or town of 350,000 or more people on the 1990 federal census from adopting a fair housing ordinance, and the attorney general may refer a complaint to such a city where its ordinance has been recognized as substantially equivalent and an intergovernmental agreement is in place. The window to adopt closed on January 1, 1995, so this is a settled arrangement rather than a live grant, and it is fair-housing authority, not authority over pets. Text: A.R.S. § 41-1491.11.
Housing classes with their own pet rule Rental housing owned, operated, managed or contracted for by a public agency: pet deposit — capped; pets must be allowed, subject to the stated conditions. Notwithstanding any other statute, a public agency that owns, operates, manages or contracts for rental housing may not prohibit elderly tenants or tenants with disabilities from keeping pets in their dwelling units, and may not impose any requirement that makes keeping a pet financially prohibitive, and may not in any case require a deposit of more than one month's rent for the keeping of a pet (section 36-1409.01, subsections A and C). Pet here is a closed list: a domesticated dog, cat, bird, fish, mouse, gerbil, hamster, turtle, guinea pig or chinchilla. Elderly means at least sixty years old, or as a specific program otherwise defines it, and the disability that carries the right must be a physical impairment verified by a signed statement of a physician licensed as an allopathic or osteopathic physician — the only Arizona clause naming who may verify a disability for a pet-keeping right, and not an assistance-animal rule. The agency keeps real powers: it may remove a pet that by its conduct or condition is a threat or nuisance to other occupants, and it may adopt reasonable regulations about pets, including their number and neutering where appropriate, and may set tenancy conditions for tenants with pets that differ from those for tenants without, where the conditions are reasonably related to the pets. The tenant stays liable for damage the pet causes, and the agency is liable for pet-caused damage only where its agents or employees knew of a dangerous propensity or condition and did not act in time. This housing sits outside the landlord-tenant act altogether, so the one-and-a-half-month security cap does not reach it. Text: A.R.S. § 36-1409.01 · (A)-(G). Text: A.R.S. § 33-1308 · (7).
Insurance and dog breeds A.R.S. § 20-1510 — The breed of a dog may not be the sole factor considered or used in underwriting or actuarial processes for determining risk, liability or actual or potential losses on dog-related claims, or in questionnaires, surveys or other means of gathering information about a dog's ownership, possession or presence at an insured property (section 20-1510, subsection A). Breed means the actual or perceived breed or mixture of breeds. The standard is sole factor, not a flat ban, so breed may still be weighed with other things. The rule reaches a homeowner's or renter's policy only, which is the limit worth knowing: an Arizona landlord's own liability carrier is not covered. It was added in 2022 and applies to policies issued or renewed after June 30, 2023. Policy types it reaches: homeowner and renter. Text: A.R.S. § 20-1510 · (A), (B)(2).
How state law refers to the federal rules Arizona's fair-housing act reaches into federal law in two places, and neither is an animal rule. Disability is defined by naming the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and directing that the term be defined and construed as those acts define and construe it (section 41-1491, paragraph 6), which is a definitional incorporation by reference and the reason a federal reading governs the threshold question of who is covered. And compliance with the appropriate requirements of the fair housing accessibility guidelines established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development satisfies one of the act's design-and-construction requirements (section 41-1491.19, subsection D), which is a building rule, not an animal rule. No Arizona statute or rule adopts any federal agency notice or joint statement about assistance animals. Separately, the landlord-tenant act does not reach public housing operated under title 36, chapter 12, or under federal law, so in that housing the federal program rules and section 36-1409.01 are what remain. The federal rules themselves, and where they stand now, are on the federal section of the 50-state page.
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting to change these answers
Leading court decisions None carried — the answers rest on the statutes and rules cited

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Arizona Pet & Assistance Animal Laws (verified September 21, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/pets/arizona/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Arizona assistance-animal documentation at a glance

The state's instrument sets no documentation standard, so every row below reads not stated unless a slot is addressed elsewhere in state law; the federal rules further down this page apply on top. The full text of each slot, with its section, is in the table above.

Slot What the state's text says
Who may certify, and on what test Not stated
The certifier's minimum relationship period Not stated
Telehealth Not stated
Online registration or certificate Not stated
Form Not stated
Medical records Not stated
Written answer from the landlord Not stated
Annual re-evaluation Not stated
Proof of vaccination or licensing Not stated

Housing classes in Arizona with their own pet rule

Each row is a housing class whose own instrument sets at least one pet cell differently from the private-market answers above; a dash is a cell the class's instrument does not set, so the residential answer on this page does not carry over to it either way. The full text of each row is in the table above.

Class Pet deposit Pet rent and fees In the lease Breed, size, weight Extra charge for an assistance animal From
Rental housing owned, operated, managed or contracted for by a public agency Capped — Pets must be allowed — — —

Where the published code text differs from the enacted law

On this page, the code and the enacted act disagree on a section's number or text, and the text below says which to cite.

The published code and the enacted act do not agree on where the landlord-immunity section lives. The 2025 act creates the section as 41-1497.38 and gives it the catchline assistance animals and reasonable accommodation; the published statutes serve the identical text at section 41-1491.38 and add the word immunity to the catchline. The article the act names is right — article 7 of chapter 9 of title 41 is the Fair Housing article, running from section 41-1491 to section 41-1491.38 — and there is no section 41-1497 of any kind in the published title, so the number in the act is a drafting slip that legislative council corrected on codification. Arizona catchlines are not part of the law in any event. The section to cite is 41-1491.38, with the act cited beside it. Separately, the statute site serves no edition banner, no credit line and no history note for any section, so every date on this page comes from the chaptered acts and the Legislature's own table of general effective dates rather than from the code page.

Federal law on pets and assistance animals, in every state

The federal layer for the pets and assistance-animals topic, carried once for the whole site. It is a dated history rather than a single rule: the Fair Housing Act's accommodation duty has not changed since 1988 and the regulation under it has never contained the word animal, while the HUD guidance that most writing on this subject still quotes was withdrawn in September 2025, permanently rescinded in May 2026, and replaced by an enforcement position that governs HUD's own cause determinations and nothing else. Every row names who it binds, and most of the rows that carry real figures bind only federally assisted, public or rural-development housing. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it does. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Arizona pets & assistance animals

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Can a landlord charge a pet deposit in Arizona, and is there a limit?
Yes — no pet figure exists, but a pet deposit is a security deposit however it is named and counts inside the general deposit cap. Arizona has no pet-deposit statute for the private market, and no separate pet allowance on top of the ordinary cap — the single most repeated error about Arizona.
Can a landlord charge pet rent or a non-refundable pet fee in Arizona?
Yes — pet rent or a pet fee may be charged, and no statute caps it. No Arizona statute mentions a pet deposit, pet rent or a pet fee; the words appear nowhere in the whole property title.
Does an Arizona lease have to state a pet policy?
No — but a written-rules or mid-term-change provision would govern a pet rule the landlord adopts. No Arizona statute requires a lease to state a pet policy, supplies a default when the lease is silent, or limits the number of animals in the private market; the lease governs, and the act's rules section governs a pet rule the landlord adopts later.
Can an Arizona landlord restrict pets by breed, size or weight?
Yes. No Arizona statute restricts, authorizes or preempts a residential landlord's breed, size or weight rule.
Does Arizona have its own assistance-animal law for rentals?
Only through the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation duty, the sole state instrument reaching assistance animals in housing; no state text sets a documentation standard. The operative rules are statutory.
What documentation can an Arizona landlord ask for when a tenant requests an assistance animal?
No state text sets a documentation standard for an assistance animal in housing. Arizona sets no documentation rule for an assistance animal in housing.
Can an Arizona landlord charge a pet deposit or pet rent for an emotional support animal?
Under state law, yes — no state text bars a charge for an assistance animal; the federal rules alone govern it. No Arizona statute bars a deposit, a fee or pet rent for an assistance animal or a service animal in housing.
What is the penalty for falsely claiming an assistance animal in Arizona?
None in housing — the only offense is scoped to public accommodations and does not reach housing. Arizona's misrepresentation offense does not reach housing, and a reader who finds the $250 figure elsewhere should know why.

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Arizona Revised Statutes on the Legislature's own site, section by section. The site serves each section body with no edition banner, no credit line and no history note, and Arizona has no code-wide statute search, so every section of eight whole titles was opened from the Legislature's own title contents pages, which list every section including the decimal ones a numbered loop misses: title 33 (property, the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and the Mobile Home Parks Act, 545 sections), title 41 (state government, the Fair Housing Act and the Arizonans with Disabilities Act, 1,480), title 13 (criminal, 985), title 32 (professions and occupations, 1,607), title 36 (public health and safety, 1,439), title 20 (insurance, 1,544), title 11 (counties, 609) and title 9 (cities and towns, 466). Sections 33-1308, 33-1310, 33-1314, 33-1321, 33-1342, 33-1368 and 33-1370 read in full for the money, lease and animal-retrieval rules; sections 41-1491, 41-1491.02, 41-1491.03, 41-1491.04, 41-1491.06, 41-1491.11, 41-1491.13, 41-1491.19, 41-1491.37 and 41-1491.38 read in full for the fair-housing duty, its exemptions and the landlord immunity; sections 11-1005, 11-1008, 11-1024 and 11-1025, section 9-499.04 and section 9-500.32 read for the dog-control, licensing and misrepresentation rules; section 36-1409.01 read in full for the public-agency pet mandate; section 20-1510 read for the insurance rule; section 13-2910 read as the only animal-and-disability section in the criminal code. Because the statute site carries no history line, every date here comes from two official surfaces instead: the Legislature's bill-status rolls for each session from 2015 to 2026, which carry each bill's chapter number, and the chaptered session laws themselves, which print the enacting clause, the amendment markup and the approval and filing dates — chapter 191 of 2025, chapter 243 of 2022, chapter 164 of 2021, chapters 246 and 323 of 2018 and chapters 162 and 351 of 2016 all read in full — together with the Legislature's own table of general effective dates. The administrative code was read on the Secretary of State's site: title 10, chapter 3, the Attorney General's Civil Rights Division rules, all four articles, printed currency line December 31, 2011, supplement 11-4. The opinion archive was searched for Arizona decisions on assistance animals, service animals, the breed clauses and the deposit cap, and none construes any provision on this page.

What was read to state each absence on this page: