(A) Short title. This section may be cited as the “Hate Crime Ordinance.”
(B) Finding. The Council deems it necessary and proper to create a specific offense and penalty for prohibited conduct involving actions that cause damage to persons or properties and that are motivated by animus toward a certain person because of his or her actual or perceived race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
(C) Hate crime. A hate crime consists of intentionally injuring a person or intentionally damaging his property because of the actual or perceived race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of that person, whether or not the offender's belief or perception was correct. As used in this section, “disability” means a physical, developmental, or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of a person's functions, including caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, or learning.
(D) Violation. It shall be unlawful to commit a hate crime as defined in this section.
(Ord. 2-1997) Penalty, see § 12-1-99