Sec. 17-12. Prohibited acts.
It is a violation of this article:
   (a)   For any owner, operator, lessee, manager, agent or employee of any place of public accommodation to discriminate against any person, or directly or indirectly display, circulate, publicize or mail any advertisement, notice or communication which states or implies that any facility or service shall be refused or restricted because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status or marital status, or that any person, because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status or marital status, would be unwelcome, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable or not solicited.
   (b)   For an employer, because of the race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status or marital status to refuse to hire or employ any person or to bar or to discharge from employment such person, or to discriminate against such person in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
   (c)   For a labor organization, because of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status or marital status to exclude, expel, limit or restrict from its membership such person, or to provide only second class or segregated membership, or to discriminate in any manner against any of its members or against any employer or any person employed by an employer.
   (d)   For any employer or employment agency to print or circulate, or cause to be printed or circulated, any publication, or to use any form of application for employment, or to make any inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination as to race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, familial status or marital status or expresses any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
   (e)   For any employer, labor organization or employment agency to discharge, expel or otherwise discriminate against any person because he/she has opposed in a lawful manner any practices forbidden under this chapter, or because he/she has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this chapter.
   (f)   For any person to cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate against an individual in violation of this chapter.
   (g)   For any person to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any of the acts forbidden under this chapter or to attempt to do so.
   (h)   For any person to discriminate in places of public accommodation, employment or housing against any person, because that person has made a complaint, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding or hearing under this chapter.
   (i)   For any person subject to this article to fail to post notices, to maintain records, or to supply documents and information requested by the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs in connection with a matter under investigation.
(Ord. No. 4169, § 2, 4-15-74; Ord. No. 4616, § 5, 2-7-77; Ord. No. 6947, § 2, 5-16-88; Ord. No. 9199, § 3, 2-1-99; Ord. No. 10375, § 2, 2-21-07)