To What Discriminatory Practices Does the Ordinance Apply?

Employment    Housing    Public Accommodations

Employment

The Ordinance applies to all employment practices including, but not limited to:

  • Recruitment

  • Hiring

  • Promotion

  • Discipline

  • Transfer

  • Reassignment

  • Training

  • Benefits

  • Separation

  • All other terms and conditions of employment

What is Not Covered:

  • Employers with less than eight (8) employees

  • Religious institutions or organizations which do not receive more than 50% of its annual funding from federal, state or local government sources

  • Dress codes

  • Designating gender specific restroom or shower facilities

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Housing

The Ordinance applies to all housing practices involving real property including, but not limited to:

  • Refuse to sell, rent, or lease

  • Falsely deny housing was available

  • Engage in blockbusting

  • Discriminate in broker's services

  • Discriminate in the conditions or terms of sale, rental occupancy or in services or facilities

  • Advertise in a discriminatory way

  • Intimidating, interfering, or coercing you to keep you from the full benefit of fair housing law

  • Refuse to enter into or discriminate in the terms and conditions or privileges of contract of insurance against hazards to a housing accommodation

  • Real property appraisals

What is Not Covered:

  • Units containing housing for two (2) families or less living independently and the owner resides in one unit

  • Unit of one (1) room or rooming unit and the owner resides in a unit of the building

  • Religious organizations or non-profit organization that operates its units strictly for its members

  • Non-bona fide renters or purchasers

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Public Accommodations

The Ordinance applies to all places of public accommodation including, but not limited to:

  • Motels, hotels

  • Stores, restaurants

  • Public parks

  • Barbers and hairdressers

  • Theaters

  • Social services

  • Taxis, buses

  • Other establishments that supplies goods or services to the general public

What is Covered:

  • Deny any individual the full and equal enjoyment of goods, services and privileges

  • Advertise in a discriminatory way

What is Not Covered:

  • Purely private clubs, resort or place of amusement

  • Rooming or boarding houses occupied by the proprietor as his/her residence

  • Religious institutions or organizations which do not receive more than 50% of its annual funding from federal, state or local government sources

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