As used in this chapter:
(a) “Discrimination” includes any difference in treatment based on race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, handicap, place of birth or age.
(b) “Employee” does not include any individual employed in the domestic service of any person.
(c) “Employer” means any person who employs four or more employees, exclusive of the parents, spouse or children of such person, including the City, its departments, boards, commissions and authorities and any person acting in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly.
(d) “Employment agency” includes any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure opportunities to work or to procure, recruit, refer or place employees.
(e) “Handicap” means a medically diagnosable, abnormal condition which is expected to continue for a considerable length of time, whether correctable or uncorrectable by good medical practice, which can reasonably be expected to limit the person’s functional ability, including, but not limited to, seeing, hearing, thinking, ambulating, climbing, descending, lifting, grasping, sitting, rising or any related function, or any limitation due to weakness and significantly decreased endurance, so that he or she cannot perform his or her everyday routine living and working without significantly increased hardship and vulnerability to what are considered the everyday obstacles and hazards encountered by the nonhandicapped.
(f) “Housing accommodations” includes any building or structure or portion thereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designated to be used or occupied, as the home residence or sleeping place of one or more individuals, groups or families, whether or not living independently of each other, and any vacant land offered for sale or lease. It also includes any housing accommodations held or offered for sale or rent by a real estate broker, salesman or agent, by any other person pursuant to authorization of the owner, by the owner himself or herself or by his or her legal representative.
(g) “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 of other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment.
(h) “Lending institution” means any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or other person regularly engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans.
(i) “Owner” includes the owner, co-owner, lessee, sublessee, mortgagee, assignee, manager, agent or any other person having the right of ownership or possession or the authority to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation, or any person having an equitable or security interest in any housing accommodation, including the City and its departments, boards, commission and authorities.
(j) “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, labor organization or other organization or association, including those acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, whether appointed by a court or otherwise. “Person,” as applied to partnerships or other organizations or associations, includes their members, and as applied to corporations, includes their officers.
(k) “Place of public accommodation” means any inn, restaurant, eating house, barbershop, public conveyance by air, land or water, theater, store or other place for the sale of merchandise, or any other place of public accommodation or amusement where the accommodation, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof are available to the public.
(l) “Real estate broker” means any natural person, partnership, corporation or other association which, for a fee or other valuable consideration, manages, sells, purchases, exchanges or rents, or negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of the real property of another, or holds himself, herself or itself out as engaged in the business of managing, selling, purchasing, exchanging or renting the real property of another, or collects rent for the use of the real property of another, and includes real estate salesmen or agents or any other person employed by a real estate broker to perform or to assist in the performance of his or her business.
(m) “Restrictive covenant” means any specification limiting the transfer, rental, lease or other use of any housing because of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, place of birth, ancestry or any limitation based upon affiliation with or approval by any person, directly or indirectly, employing race, color, sex, religion, national origin, handicap, place of birth or ancestry as a condition of affiliation or approval.
(Ord. 71-41. Passed 1-17-72; Ord. 74-18. Passed 5-20-74; Ord. 79-15. Passed 8-6-79; Ord. 16-04. Passed 4-18-16.)