As used in this chapter:
(a) “Discriminate and discrimination” includes segregate or separate and any difference in treatment based on race, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, physical disabilities, mental disabilities or economic status.
(b) “Person” includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, and trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and other organized groups of person. It also includes, but is not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesman, agent, employee, lending institution; and the City of Coshocton, and all political subdivisions, authorities, agencies, boards and commissions thereof.
(c) “Employer” means any person who employs four (4) or more persons, within the City of Coshocton, including the City of Coshocton, its department, boards, commissions, and authorities.
(d) “Labor organization” includes any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or for other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment.
(e) “Employment agency” means any persons regularly undertaking with or without compensation, to procure opportunities for employment of or to procure, recruit, refer, or place employees.
(f) “Place of public accommodations” means any inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public conveyance by air, land or water, theater, store, or other place for the sale of merchandise, or any other place of public accommodation or amusement where the accommodation, advantages, facilities, or privileges thereof are available to the public, or a private club which has more than two hundred (200) members, provides regular meal service and regularly receives payment for dues, fees, use of space, facilities, services, meals or beverages directly or indirectly from or on behalf of nonmembers for the furtherance of trade or business. “Place of public accommodation” does not mean a benevolent corporation incorporated as such or a religious corporation incorporated as such under the laws of Ohio.
(g) “Housing accommodations” includes any building or structure or portion thereof which is used or occupied or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied as a home residence or sleeping place of one or more individuals, groups or families, whether or not living independently of each other; and any vacant land offered for sale or lease. It also includes any housing accommodations held or offered for sale or rent by a real estate broker, salesman, or agent, or by any other person pursuant to authorization of the owner, by the owner, or by such person’s legal representative.
(h) “Restrictive covenant” means any specification in a deed, land contract or lease limiting the use of any housing because of race, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, physical disabilities, mental disabilities or economic status, or any limitation based upon affiliation with or approval by any person directly or indirectly, employing race, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, physical disabilities, mental disabilities or economic status as condition of affiliation or approval.
(i) “Burial lot” means any lot for the burial of deceased persons within any public burial ground or cemetery, including but not limited to, cemeteries owned and operated by the City of Coshocton or companies or associations incorporated for cemetery purposes.
(j) “Sexual orientation” means a person’s actual or perceived homosexuality; bisexuality; or heterosexuality or transgender, by orientation or practice, by and between consenting adults.
(k) “Racial profiling” means to stop, detain, investigate, search, seize or arrest an individual based on the racial or ethnic status of such individual except when based upon a physical description of a suspect in a criminal or traffic offense.
(l) “Commission” means the Human Relations Commission of the City created by this chapter. (Ord. 41-07. Passed 10-22-07.)