Sec. 9-16. - Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Hotel and motel shall include every establishment offering lodging to transient guests for compensation, but such terms shall not apply to any such establishment if the majority of occupants therein are permanent residents.

Place of public accommodation shall include every business within the city, whether wholesale or retail, which is open to the general public and offers, for compensation, any product, service or facility. The term place of public accommodation shall include, but not be limited to, all taverns, hotels, motels, apartment hotels, apartment houses, four (4) or more tenant units, restaurants or any place where food or beverages are sold, retail and wholesale establishments, hospitals, theaters, motion picture houses, museums, bowling alleys, golf courses and all public conveyances, as well as the stations or terminals thereof.

Restaurant shall include every cafe, cafeteria, coffee shop, sandwich shop, snack bar, supper club, soda fountain, soft drink or ice cream parlor, luncheonette, or other similar establishment, which offers food or beverages for purchase and consumption on the premises, but shall not include places at which intoxicating beverages are sold otherwise than as an accompaniment to meals.

Theater shall include every place, whether indoors or out-of-doors, at which any theatrical performance, moving picture show, musical concert or recital, dramatic reading or monologue, circus, carnival, or other like entertainment or amusement is offered for compensation.

Sec. 9-17. - Exemptions.

This chapter shall not, however, apply to any hotel, motel, restaurant or theater operated by a bona fide private club not conducted for the purpose of evading this chapter when the accommodations, advantages, facilities and services are restricted to the members of such club and their guests; nor to any bona fide social, fraternal, educational, civic, political or religious organization, when the profits of such accommodations, advantages, facilities and services, above reasonable and necessary expenses, are solely for the benefit of such organization.

(Code 1959, § 10B-3; Ord. No. 33863, §§ 3, 4, 11-11-65; Ord. No. 34303, § 1, 4-21-66)

Sec. 9-18. - Effect on civil remedies now available.

This chapter shall neither add to nor detract from any civil remedies now available to persons subject to racial or religious discrimination.

(Code 1959, § 10B-4; Ord. No. 33863, § 5, 11-11-65)

Sec. 9-19. - Discrimination prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person, or any employee or agent thereof within the city, to discriminate against, withhold from or deny any person, because of race, color, religion, sex, age or handicap, any of the advantages, facilities or services offered to the general public by a place of public accommodation.

(Code 1959, § 10B-1; Ord. No. 33863, §§ 2, 7, 11-11-65; Ord. No. 49162, § 1, 3-23-78)

Secs. 9-20—9-35. - Reserved.