(a) "Age," for the purpose of this chapter means, any age of 18 years or older.
(b) "Bidder" means any person, partnership, corporation, association or joint venture seeking to be awarded a public contract.
(c) "Contractor" means any person, partnership, corporation, association or joint venture, and includes each and every subcontractor on such a contract and every supplier of equipment or supplies.
(d) "Construction contract" means any public contract for the construction, rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, extension or repair of buildings, streets or other improvements to real property.
(e) "Discrimination" or "to discriminate" means to distinguish, differentiate, separate or segregate solely on the basis of race, age, handicap, religion, color, sex, national origin, military status, sexual orientation or gender identity.
(f) "Gender identity" means related identity, appearance, expression, or behavior of a person, regardless of a person's assigned sex at birth.
(g) "Military status" means a person's status in the uniformed services. Service in the uniformed services means the performance of duty, on a voluntary, or involuntary basis, in a uniformed service under competent authority, and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive duty for training, full-time National Guard duty, and performance of duty or training by a member of the Ohio Organized Militia. Service in the uniformed services includes also the period of time for which a person is absent from a position of public or private employment for the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform any duty.
(h) "Public contract" means any contract awarded by the City whereby the City is committed to expend or does expend its funds in return for work, labor, services, supplies, equipment, materials or any combination of the foregoing, or any lease, lease by way of concession, concession agreement, permit or permit agreement whereby the City leases, grants or demises property of the City or otherwise grants a right or privilege to occupy or use property of the City.
(i) "Sexual orientation" means having or being perceived as having an orientation for homosexuality, heterosexuality or bisexuality.
(j) "Subcontractor" means any person, partnership, corporation, association or joint venture which supplies any of the work, labor, services, supplies, equipment, materials or any combination of the foregoing under a contract with the contractor on a public contract.
(Ord. 153-2012. Passed 9-24-12.)