As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
(a) "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 municipal corporations, townships or companies or associations incorporated for cemetery purposes.
(b) "Commission" means the Human Relations Commission.
(c) "Discriminate" means to segregate or separate.
(d) "Employee" does not include any individual employed in the domestic service of any person.
(e) "Employer" means the State or any political or civil subdivision thereof, any person employing four or more persons within the State and any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly.
(f) "Employment agency" means any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure opportunities to work or to procure, recruit, refer or place employees.
(g) "Handicap" means a medically diagnosable abnormal condition which is expected to continue for a considerable period of time, whether correctable or uncorrectable by good medical practice, which can reasonably be expected to limit the person's functional ability, including, but not limited to, seeing, hearing, thinking, ambulating, climbing, descending, lifting, grasping, sitting, rising or any related function, or any limitation due to weakness and significantly decreased endurance, so that he or she cannot perform his or her everyday routine living and working without significantly increased hardship and vulnerability to what are considered the everyday obstacles and hazards encountered by the nonhandicapped.
(h) "Housing accommodations" means any building or structure or portion thereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as the 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 leased for commercial housing. "Housing accommodations" also includes any housing accommodations held or offered for sale or rent by a real estate broker, salesperson or agent, by any other person pursuant to authorization of the owner, by the owner himself or herself or by his or her legal representative.
(i) "Labor organization" means 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.
(j) "Person" means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and other organized groups of persons, including, but not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesperson, agent, employee, lending institution, the State and all political subdivisions, authorities, agencies, boards and commissions thereof.
(k) "Place of public accommodation" means any inn, restaurant, eating house, barber shop, public conveyance by air, land or water, theater, store, other place for the sale of merchandise or any other place where the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof are available to the public.
(1) "Restrictive covenant" means any specification limiting the transfer, rental, lease or other use of any housing because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry or handicap, or any limitation based upon affiliation with, or approval by any person of, directly or indirectly, any race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry or handicap.
(m) "Unlawful discriminatory practice" means any act prohibited by Section 507.02.
(Ord. 3726. Passed 11-21-78.)
(Ord. 3726. Passed 11-21-78.)