(a) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any public accommodation, resort or amusement to:
(1) Refuse, withhold from, or deny to any person because of his race, color, sex, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, hairstyles and protective and cultural hair textures and hairstyles, or disability, or to any person due to use of a guide or support animal because of the disability of the user or because the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals, either directly or indirectly, any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges of such public accommodation, resort or amusement.
(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 and privileges of any such place shall be refused, withheld from or denied to any person on account of race, color, religious creed, sex, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, hairstyles and protective and cultural hair textures and hairstyles, disability, or to any person due to use of a guide or support animal because of the disability of the user, or because the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals, or that the patronage or custom thereat of any person, belonging to, or purporting to be of any particular age, race, color, religious creed, sex, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, hairstyles and protective and cultural hair textures and hairstyles, or disability, or to any person due to use of a guide or support animal because of the disability of the user or because the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals, is unwelcome, objectionable or not acceptable, desired or solicited.
(3) Exclude or otherwise deny equal goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, accommodations or other opportunities to a person because of the disability of an individual with whom the person is known to have a relationship or association.
(4) Construct, operate or otherwise make available such place of public accommodation, resort or amusement which is not accessible.
(5) Aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any act declared by this subsection to be an unlawful discriminatory practice, or to obstruct or prevent any person from complying with the provisions of this subsection or any order issued thereunder, or to attempt, directly or indirectly, to commit any act declared by this subsection to be an unlawful discriminatory practice.
(b) For any person subject to this article to fail to post and exhibit prominently in his place of business any fair practices notice prepared and distributed by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission or the York Human Relations Commission.
(c) Nothing in this article shall bar any religious or denominational institution or organization, or any religious or denominational organization operated for charitable or educational purposes, which is operated, supervised or controlled by or in connection with a religious organization, from limiting admission to or giving preference to persons of the same religion or denomination with regard to the occupancy, leasing, sale or purchase of real estate, or from making such selection as is calculated by such organization to promote the religious principles for which it is established or maintained, provided that such selection or preference is not on the basis of race, color, familial status, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identification, hairstyles and protective and cultural hair textures and hairstyles, disability, or the use of a guide or support animal because of the disability of the user or because the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals.
(d) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person to interfere with the exercise of one's rights under this article, harass, threaten, intimidate, harm, damage or otherwise penalize any person, group or business because he or they exercised his or their rights under this article, or because he or they have complied with the provisions of this article, or enjoyed the benefits of this article, or because he or they have made a charge, testified or assisted in any manner in any investigation, proceeding or hearing hereunder. (See also Section 185.06(b)).
(e) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person to aid, abet, incite, induce, compel or coerce the doing of an unlawful employment, housing, or public accommodation practice prohibited by this article or to obstruct or prevent any person from complying with the provisions of this article or any order issued hereunder.
(Ord. 32-2022. Passed 5-18-22.)