It shall be unlawful discriminatory practice, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification, or except where based upon applicable security regulations established by the United States or this State or the City or any agency or political subdivision of the United States, this State or the City:
(a) For any employer to discriminate against an individual with respect to compensation, hire, tenure, terms, conditions or privileges of employment if the individual is able and competent to perform the services required; provided, that it shall not be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to observe the provisions of any bona fide pension, retirement, group or employee insurance or welfare benefit plan or system which is not adopted as a subterfuge to evade the provisions of the subdivision;
(b) For any employer, employment agency or labor organization, prior to the employment or admission to membership to:
(1) Elicit any information or make or keep a record of or use any form of application or application blank containing questions or entries concerning the race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age of any applicant for employment or membership;
(2) Print or publish or cause to be printed or published any notice or advertisement relating to employment or membership indicating any preference, limitation, specification or discrimination based upon race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age; or
(3) Deny or limit, through a quota system, employment or membership because of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age;
(c) For any labor organization because of the race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age of any individual to deny full and equal membership rights to any individual or otherwise to discriminate against such individuals with respect to hiring, tenure, terms, conditions or privileges of employment, or any other matter directly or indirectly related to employment;
(d) For an employer, labor organization, employment agency or any joint labor- management committee controlling apprentice training programs to:
(1) Select individuals for an apprentice training program registered with the City on any basis other than their qualifications as determined by objective criteria which permit review;
(2) Discriminate against any individual with respect to his right to be admitted to or participate in a guidance program, an apprenticeship training program, on-the-job training program, or other occupational training or retraining program;
(3) Discriminate against any individual in his pursuit of such program or to discriminate against such a person in the terms, conditions or privileges of such programs;
(4) Print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publications, or to use any form of application for such programs or to make any inquiry in connection with such programs which expresses, directly or indirectly, discrimination or any intent to discriminate, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification;
(e) For any employment agency to fail or refuse to classify, properly refer for employment or otherwise to discriminate against any individual because of his race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age;
(f) For any person being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public accommodations to:
(1) Refuse, withhold from or deny to any individual because of his race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age, either directly or indirectly, any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges or services of such place of public accommodations;
(2) Publish, circulate, issue, display, post or mail, either directly or indirectly, any written or printed communication, notice or advertisement to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges or services of any such place shall be refused, withheld from or denied to any individual on account of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age, or that the patronage or custom thereat of any individual, belonging to or purporting to be of any particular race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness, sex or age, shall be unwelcome, objectionable, not acceptable, undesired or not solicited;
(g) For the owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee or managing agent of, or other person having the right of ownership or possession of or the right to sell, rent, lease, assign or sublease any housing accommodations or real property or part or portion thereof, or any agent, or employee of any of them;
or for any real estate broker, real estate salesman, or employee or agent thereof to:
(1) Discriminate against any person or group of persons because of race, religion, blindness, sex, age, color, national origin or ancestry of such person or group of persons or of the prospective occupants or tenants of such housing accommodations or real property, or part or portion thereof, in the granting, withholding, extending, modifying or renewing, or in the fixing of the rates, terms, conditions or provisions of any such financial assistance or in the extension of services in connection therewith;
(2) Use any form of application for such financial assistance or to make any record of inquiry in connection with applications for such financial assistance which expresses, directly or indirectly, any discrimination as to race, religion, sex, age, color, blindness, national origin, or ancestry, or any intent to make any such discrimination.
(h) For any person, employer, employment agency, labor organization, owner, real estate broker, real estate salesman or financial institution to:
(1) Engage in any form of threats or reprisals, or to engage in, or hire, or conspire with others to commit acts or activities of any nature, the purpose of which is to harass, degrade, embarrass or cause physical harm or economic loss or to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce any person to engage in any of the unlawful discriminatory practices defined in this section;
(2) Willfully obstruct or prevent any person from complying with the provisions of this article or to resist, prevent, impede or interfere with the Human Rights Commission or any of its members or representatives in the performance of their duties under this article.
(3) Engage in any form of reprisal or otherwise discriminate against any person because he has opposed any practices or acts forbidden under this section or because he has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this article;
(4) For profit to induce or attempt to induce any person to sell or rent or to not sell or rent any housing accommodations or real property by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry into the neighborhood of persons who are of a particular race, or because of their blindness, sex, religion, color, national origin or ancestry.
(Ord. 78-25. Passed 7-24-78.)