As used in this Chapter:
(a) “Aggrieved individual” means an individual who claims to have been injured by an unlawful discriminatory act or practice described in this Chapter.
(b) “Code Administrator” means that individual appointed to be the Code Administrator pursuant to the provisions of the Oberlin Codified Ordinances.
(c) “City” means the City of Oberlin Ohio.
(d) “Commercial Purposes” means the conduct of any activity for financial gain but does not include the non-secular activities of a Religious Organization in the engagement of the exercise of its religion.
(e) “Commission” means the Oberlin Human Relations Commission or such comparable agency as Council may approve.
(f) “Common use areas” means rooms, spaces, or elements inside or outside a building that are made available for the use of residents of the building or their guests, and includes, but is not limited to, hallways, lounges, lobbies, laundry rooms, refuse rooms, mail rooms, recreational areas, and passageways among and between buildings.
(g) “Complainant” means an Aggrieved Individual who, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, files with the Code Administrator a written Complaint alleging an unlawful discriminatory act or practice.
(h) “Covered multifamily dwellings” means buildings consisting of four or more units if such buildings have one or more elevators and ground floor units in other buildings consisting of four or more units.
(i) “Discriminate” means to differentiate and treat differently, including to segregate or separate.
(j) “Employee” means an individual employed by any Employer but does not include any individual employed in the domestic service of any person.
(k) “Employer” includes any person who regularly employs for compensation four or more individuals, excluding the Employer’s parent(s), spouse, and children, including any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an Employer, provided “Employer” does not include the State of Ohio, an agency of State of Ohio or the federal government. The term “Employer” shall include the City.
(l) “Employment Agency” includes any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure opportunities for employment or to procure, recruit, refer, or place employees.
(m) “Gender Identity or Expression” shall have the same meaning as is set forth in Section 157.01 of these Codified Ordinances.
(n) “Hearing Officer” means a neutral independent contractor, licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio, hired by the City, to conduct an administrative hearing based on a Complaint filed pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.
(o) “Labor organization” includes any organization that exists, in whole or in part, for the purpose of collective bargaining or of dealing with Employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment.
(p) “Law Director” means the individual appointed by Council, pursuant to Article XVIII of the Oberlin Charter, or his or her assistant(s).
(q) “Person” includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and other organized groups of individuals. "Person" as applied to partnerships or other associations, includes their members and as applied to corporations, includes those officers having control over any Unlawful Discriminatory Act falling within this chapter.
(r) “Place of Public Accommodation” means any inn, restaurant, cafeteria, hotel, motel, bank or other financial services institution, barbershop, public conveyance by air, land, or water, theater, store or other place for the sale of merchandise or for the provision of services to the public, or any other place where the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges are made available to the public, provided it shall not apply to an agency of government other than the City.
(s) “Protected Class” means a classification of individuals based on one or more of the following characteristics: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Expression.
(t) “Public Use Areas” means interior or exterior rooms or spaces of a privately owned building that are made available to the public.
(u) “Religious Organization” means a “Place of Worship” as defined in Section 1321.71 of the City of Oberlin Zoning Ordinance, a not-for profit church or integrated auxiliary of a church, as those terms are used by the United States Internal Revenue Service and any school that incorporates substantial religious teachings or religious practices of that church in that school. Religious Organization does not include any hospital or medical facility that offers medical services to the public.
(v) “Respondent” means the person who is alleged to have committed or is alleged to be committing unlawful discriminatory act(s) or practices and who is identified in a written Complaint filed by a Complainant.
(w) “Sexual Orientation” shall have the same meaning as is set forth in Section 157.01 of these Codified Ordinances.
(x) “Unlawful discriminatory practice” means any act or practice prohibited by this Chapter. (Ord. 20-64AC CMS. Passed 1-4-21.)