(a) As used in this section, "public accommodation" or "place of public accommodation" shall mean any inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, theater, store, or other place for the sale of merchandise or provision of services, amusement or accommodation of which the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges are offered or available to the public, and which conducts business with residents within the City.
(b) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice in a place of public accommodation for any person who is the owner, operator, lessee, manager, administrator, servant, agent or employee of any place of public accommodation:
(1) To refuse, deny, segregate, discriminate or make a distinction, directly or indirectly, in offering its goods, services, facilities or accommodations to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry;
(2) For any person, whether or not specifically prohibited from discriminating under any provisions of this section, to aid, abet, incite, compel, or coerce the doing of any act declared to be an unlawful discriminatory practice by this section, or to attempt to do so;
(3) To coerce, intimidate, threaten, retaliate against, or otherwise interfere with any person, or attempt to do so, because he or she has promoted the provisions of this section, or because he or she has filed a complaint, testified, or assisted in any proceeding, investigation or hearing involving an alleged violation of this chapter or by appropriate state or federal law;
(4) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a religious or denominational institution, organization, society or association or any nonprofit charitable or educational organization that is operated, supervised or controlled by or in connection with a religious organization, from limiting its offerings of goods, services, facilities and accommodations to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference to such persons, provided that such offerings mentioned above are not, in fact, offered for commercial purposes or supported by public funds;
(5) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the establishment of programs or other public accommodations designed and operated for a particular age group. However, such public accommodations shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the modification of existing facilities or the construction of new or additional facilities.
(Ord. 235-20. Passed 11-23-20; Ord. 267-20. Passed 12-21-20.)