For the purpose of the enforcement of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Age" means at least forty years old.
(b) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(c) "Person" means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and 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 City of Springfield and any officer or employee thereof.
(d) "Employer" means the City of Springfield and any officer or employee thereof, any person employing four or more persons, and any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly.
(e) "Employee" does not include any individual employed in the domestic service of any person.
(f) "Labor organization" means 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.
(g) "Employment agency" means any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure opportunities to work or to procure, recruit, refer or place employees.
(h) "Physical or mental impairment" includes any of the following:
(1) Any physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss affecting one or more of the following body systems: neurological; musculoskeletal; special sense organs; respiratory, including speech organs; cardiovascular; reproductive; digestive; genito-urinary; hemic and lymphatic; skin; and endocrine;
(2) Any mental or psychological disorder, including, but not limited to, mental retardation, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities;
(3) Diseases and conditions, including, but not limited to, orthopedic, visual, speech, and hearing impairments, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus infection, mental retardation, emotional illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.
(4) "Physical or mental impairment" does not include any of the following:
A. Homosexuality and bisexuality;
B. Transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior disorders;
C. Compulsive gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania;
D. Psychoactive substance use disorders resulting from current illegal use of a controlled substance.
(i) "Public accommodations" means any business, enterprise or activity consisting of or involving furnishing, providing or making available to the public any goods, services, accommodations, facilities, advantages or privileges, and includes any activity engaged in pursuant to the performance of any public duty.
(j) "Discriminatory practice" means any act, practice or course of conduct constituting or resulting in inequality of treatment of any person because of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation in the areas of employment, education, public accommodations or economic opportunity. As used in this chapter, "discriminatory practice" includes, but is not limited to the following:
(1) For any employer, because of the race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation of any person, to refuse to hire or otherwise to discriminate against him with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions or privileges of employment, or any matter directly or indirectly related to employment.
(2) For an employment agency to:
A. Refuse or fail to accept, register, classify properly or refer to employment, or otherwise to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation, or
B. Comply with a request from an employer for referral of applicants for employment if the request or any other matters known to such employment agency reasonably indicate, directly or indirectly, that the employer engages or shall engage in a discriminatory practice in connection with the hiring of any employee.
(3) For any labor organization to:
A. Limit or classify its membership on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation, or
B. Discriminate against any person or limit his employment opportunities, or otherwise adversely effect his status as an employee, or his wages, hours or employment conditions, because of his race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation.
(4) For any employer, labor organization or joint labor-management committee controlling apprentice training programs to discriminate against any person because of his race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation in admission to, or employment in any program established to provide apprentice training.
(5) For any person to:
A. Refuse to lend money, whether or not secured by mortgage or otherwise, to any person because of the race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation of any such person, provided such lender, whether an individual, corporation or association of any type, lends money as one of the principal aspects of his business or incidental to his principal business; or
B. Discriminate against any person in the terms or conditions of any loan of money, whether or not secured by mortgage or otherwise, because of the race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation of any such person.
(6) For any person in any manner engaged in any public accommodations to deny to any person, except for reasons applicable alike to all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, handicap, age, sex, or sexual orientation the full enjoyment of the goods, services, accommodations, facilities, advantages or privileges thereof.
(7) For any person to discriminate in any manner against any other person because he has opposed any practice defined in this section or because he has made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in any investigation, proceeding or hearing under this chapter.
(8) The provisions of this Chapter as they pertain to discriminatory practices based on sexual orientation shall not apply to religious schools, churches that are engaged in religious activities, parachurch organizations, or any nonprofit institution, or organization operated, supervised, or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society, and owner-occupied residences with not more than three (3) unrelated renters.
(k) "Handicap" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, including the functions of caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working; a record of a physical or mental impairment; or being regarded as having a physical or mental impairment.
(Ord. 18-24. Passed 1-30-18.)