For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context indicates or clearly requires a different meaning.
“COMMISSION.” The Joint Bourbon County Commission on Human Rights.
“COMMISSIONER.” A member on the commission.
“DISCRIMINATION.” Any direct or indirect act or practice of exclusion, distinction, restriction, segregation, limitation, refusal, denial, or any other act or practice or differentiation or preference in the treatment of a person because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disability.
“EMPLOYEE.” An individual employed by an employer, but does not include an individual employment by his parents, spouse, or child, or an individual employed to render services as a domestic in the home of the employer.
“EMPLOYER.” A person who has eight (8) or more employees in each of twenty (20) or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year.
“EMPLOYMENT AGENCY.” A person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer.
“HOUSING ACCOMMODATION.” Includes improved and unimproved property and means a building, structure, or part hereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied as the home or residence of one (1) or more individuals.
“LABOR ORGANIZATION.” A labor organization and an agent of such an organization and includes an organization of any kind, an agency or employees’ representation committee, group, association, or plan so engaged in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours, or other terms or conditions of employment, and a conference, general committee, joint or system board, or joint council so engaged which is subordinated to a national or international labor organization.
“PERSON.” One (1) or more individuals, labor unions, joint apprenticeship committees, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, or other legal or commercial entity, the city, or any of its agencies.
“PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, RESORT, OR AMUSEMENT.” Any place, store, or other establishment, either licensed or unlicensed, which supplies goods or services to the general public or which is supported directly or indirectly by government funds; except that a private club is not a place of public accommodation if its policies are determined by its members and its facilities or services are available only to its members and their bona fide guests.
“REAL ESTATE BROKER OR REAL ESTATE SALESMAN.” An individual, whether licensed or not, who, for a fee, commission, salary, or other valuable consideration, or who with the intention or expectation of receiving or collecting the same, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases real estate or the improvements thereon, including options, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate such an activity; or who advertises or holds himself out as engaged in such activities; or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured by mortgage or other encumbrances, upon a transfer of real estate; or who is engaged in the business of charging an advance fee or contracting for collection of a fee in connection with a contract whereby he undertakes to promote the sale, purchase, exchange, rental, or lease of real estate through its listing in a publication issued primarily for such purpose; or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
“REAL PROPERTY.” Buildings, structures, real estate lands, tenements, leaseholds, cooperatives, condominiums, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest in the same.
(1976 Code, § 9-3; Ord. 25-81, § 1(2))
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Similar definitions, see KRS 244.010, 244.030