(a) It is an unlawful public accommodations practice for any person as defined in § 8-702, being the owner, operator, lessee, manager, administrator, employee, public servant, agent or employee of any place of public accommodation:
(1) To refuse, deny or make a distinction directly or indirectly in offering its goods, services, facilities and accommodations to any person as covered by this article because of race, sex, religion, physical handicap, color, national origin or ancestry; or
(2) Whether or not specifically prohibited from discriminating under any provisions of this article, to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any of the acts forbidden under this article or to attempt to do so.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a religious organization, association or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association or society, from limiting its offerings of goods, services, facilities and accommodations to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference to persons; provided that the above-mentioned offerings are not, in fact, offered for commercial purposes, nor shall anything in this article prohibit a nonprofit private club, in fact not open to the public, which, incidentally to its primary purpose, provides certain public accommodations, as defined in § 8-702, for other than commercial purposes, from limiting the accommodations to its members, or giving preference to its members and the guests of its members.
(Prior Code, § 8-707) (Ord. 1099, passed 4-1-1981)