The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
AGE: That period of time when a worker is at least forty (40) years old and less than seventy (70) years old.
COMMISSION: The community relations commission.
COMMISSIONER: A member of the commission.
DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE: The practice designated as discriminatory under this chapter.
EMPLOYER: A person who has five (5) or more employees exclusive of the parent, spouse or children of such person, including the city, its departments, boards, commissions, and authorities, and any other governmental agency within its jurisdiction, or a person who, as a contractor or subcontractor, is furnishing the material or performing work for the state or a governmental entity or agency of the state and includes an agent of such a person, but does not include an Indian tribe, a bona fide membership club not organized for profit, or religious, fraternal, or sectarian organization which is not supported in whole or in part by any governmental appropriations.
EMPLOYMENT AGENCY: A person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person.
LABOR ORGANIZATION: Shall include:
A. An organization of any kind, an agency or employee representation committee, group, association, or plan in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part;
B. A conference, general committee, joint or system board, or joint council so engaged which is subordinate to a national or international labor organization; or
C. An agent of a labor organization.
NATIONAL ORIGIN: Shall include the national origin of an ancestor.
OWNER: The owner, co-owner, lessee, sublessee, mortgagee, assignee, manager, agent, employee, or any other person having the right of ownership or possession or the authority to sell, rent, or lease any dwelling unit, or any person having an equitable or security interest in any dwelling unit, including the city and its departments, boards, commissions, and authorities.
PERSON: An individual, association, corporation, joint apprenticeship, committee, joint stock company, labor union, legal representative, mutual company, partnership, receiver, trust, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, unincorporated organization, any other legal or commercial entity, the state, or any governmental entity or agency, including the city.
PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION: Includes any place, store or other establishment, either licensed or unlicensed, which supplies goods or services to the general public or which solicits or accepts the patronage or trade of the general public or which is supported directly or indirectly by government funds. Except that a private club is not a place of public accommodation, if its policies are determined by its members and its facilities or services are available only to its members and their bona fide guests. "Place of public accommodation" shall not include barbershops or beauty shops or privately owned resort or amusement establishments or an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five (5) rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of the establishment as his residence.
REAL ESTATE BROKER: Any person who, for a fee or other valuable consideration, manages, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or negotiates, or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange, or rental of, the real property of another, or holds himself out as engaged in the business of managing, selling, purchasing, exchanging, or renting the real property of another, or collects rent for the use of the real property of another, and includes real estate salesmen or agents or any other person employed by a real estate broker to perform or to assist in the performance of his business. (1994 Code § 10-1)