For the purpose of this chapter, unless otherwise specifically provided, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively:
(A) "Public-fund transaction." Any offer to furnish, or furnishing of, goods or services, or combination of goods and services, to or for the benefit of the town, or any agent or agency thereof (intending to include any private organization supported or assisted by any amount of tax funds of the town), in which the consideration for the furnishing is or would be constituted in whole or in part by public funds of the town, or any agency thereof.
(B) "Unfair employment practice." Shall have the meaning assigned by Conn. Gen. Stat., Ch. 563, and the meaning assigned by Title VII, Public Law 88-352, and reference to such statutes shall include such amendments thereof as may be made from time to time.
(C) "Vendor." Any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity, or combination of entities, engaged in, or seeking to become engaged in, or offering a bid to become engaged in, a public-fund transaction with any department, office, commission, board, agency or other representative acting for the town.
(Effective 8-1-68)
Public funds of the town shall not knowingly be paid to, nor expended, so as to benefit or futher any interest of any vendor engaging in any unfair employment practice. It is declared to be the public policy of the town that vendors who engage in, or permit, unfair employment practices in their business, trade or industry, shall not knowingly be allowed to transact business with, perform services for, or furnish supplies to, the town. The office of the purchasing agent, and all other departments, offices, commissions, boards and other agencies, of the town, from time to time engaged in the procurement of goods or services for the public purposes of this community, shall not knowingly enter into any public-fund transaction with a vendor engaging in an unfair employment practice.
(Effective 8-1-68)
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