Public Accommodations

Sec. 16-59. Unlawful public accommodation practice.
It shall be an unlawful public accommodation practice:

(a) For any person, owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, director, superintendent, agent, employee, committee, officer, or board of any place of public accommodation;

(1) To discriminate or to directly or indirectly refuse, withhold from or deny to any person on account of race or color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, age, or country of ancestral origin any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges thereof;

(2) To discriminate or to directly or indirectly print or publish or cause to be printed or published, circulated, broadcasted, issued, used, displayed, posted, or mailed any written, printed or painted or oral communication, notice, or advertisement relating to public accommodations indicating any preference, denial, limitation, specification, qualification, or discrimination based upon race or color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, age, or country of ancestral origin;

(3) To discriminate or to directly or indirectly elicit or attempt to elicit any information regarding an individual's race or color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, age, or country of ancestral origin; or, to use, any form of application which contains questions or entries directly or indirectly pertaining to such information;

(4) To establish, announce, or follow a pattern, practice, or policy of denying, excluding, or limiting services or membership to any group because the race or color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, age, or country of ancestral origin of such group;

(b) For any person to discriminate in any manner against any individual, or deny that individual because he or she has opposed any practice forbidden by this article or because he or she has made a charge, testified, or assisted in any manner in any investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this article;

(c) For any person, whether or not acting for monetary gain, to aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce the doing of any act declared by this section to be unlawful accommodation practices, or to obstruct or prevent any person from complying with the provisions of this article or any regulation or order issued thereunder, or to attempt directly or indirectly to commit any act declared by this section to be an unlawful public accommodation practice.

(Ord. 1979, ch. 79-1, § 9, 1-22-79; Ord. 1985, ch. 85-77, § 9, 9-5-85, Ord. No. 1995, ch. 95-20, 8-17-95)