As used in this chapter, certain terms shall have the following definitions:
(a) "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers or other organized groups of persons. It also includes, but is not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesman, agent, employee, lending institution; and the State, and all political subdivisions, authorities, agencies, boards and commissions thereof.
(b) "Employer" includes 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.
(c) "Employee" does not include any individual employed in the domestic service of any person.
(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" includes any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure opportunities to work or to procure, recruit, refer or place employees.
(f) "Board" means the Jackson Human Rights Board.
(g) "Discriminate" includes segregate or separate.
(h) "Unlawful discriminatory practice" means any act prohibited by Section 160.02.
(i) "Place of public accommodation" means any inn, restaurant, eating house, barber shop, public conveyance by air, land or water, theater, store, or other place for the sale of merchandise, or any other place where the accommodation, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof are available to the public.
(j) "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 the home residence or sleeping place of one or more individuals, groups of families whether or not living independently of each other; and any vacant land offered for sale or leased for commercial housing. 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 himself or by his legal representative.
(k) "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, directly or indirectly, employing race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry or handicap as a condition of affiliation or approval.
(l) “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.
(m) "Handicap" means a medically diagnosable, abnormal condition which is expected to continue for a considerable length 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, any related function, or any limitation due to weakness and significantly decreased endurance, so that he cannot perform his everyday routine living and working without significantly increased hardship and vulnerability to what are considered the everyday obstacles and hazards encountered by the nonhandicapped. (Ord. 12-78. Passed 3-13-78.)