As used in this chapter:
(a) “Burial lot” means a lot for the burial of a deceased person in a public burial ground or cemetery, including, but not limited to, a cemetery owned and operated by a municipal corporation, township or company or association incorporated for cemetery purposes.
(b) “Commission” means the Human Relations Commission of the Municipality.
(c) “Discriminate” includes the words “segregate” and “separate.”
(d) “Employee” does not include an individual employed in the domestic service of any person.
(e) “Employer” includes the State or a political or civil subdivision thereof, a person employing four or more persons in the State and a person acting, directly or indirectly, in the interest of an employer.
(f) “Employment agency” includes a person who regularly undertakes, with or without compensation, to procure opportunities to work or to procure, recruit, refer or place employees.
(g) “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 a person's functional ability, including, but not limited to, seeing, hearing, thinking, ambulating, climbing, descending, lifting, grasping, sitting, rising, any function related thereto or any limitation due to weakness and significantly decreased endurance, so that he or she cannot perform his or her everyday living and working routine without significantly increased hardship and vulnerability to what are considered the everyday obstacles and hazards encountered by the nonhandicapped.
(h) “Housing accommodations” includes:
(1) A building or structure, or a 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 persons, groups or families whether or not living independently of each other;
(2) Any vacant land offered for sale or leased for commercial housing; and
(3) Housing accommodations held or offered for sale or rent by a real estate broker, salesman or agent or by the owner himself or herself, his or her legal representative or any other person authorized by the owner.
(i) “Labor organization” includes an 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.
(j) “Person” includes, but is not limited to, any individual, partnership, association, organization, corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver or other organized group of persons or any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesman, agent, employee or lending institution. “Person” also includes the State or any political subdivision, authority, agency, board or commission thereof.
(k) “Place of public accommodation” means an 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 accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof are available to the public.
(l) “Restrictive covenant” means a specification limiting the transfer, rental, lease or other use of any housing because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry or handicap, or a limitation based upon affiliation with or approval by a person, directly or indirectly, employing race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry or handicap as a condition of affiliation or approval.
(m) “Unlawful discriminatory practice” means an act prohibited by Section 628.02.
(Ord. 7-78. Passed 3-6-78.)