The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall
have the meanings given to them in this subsection. To the extent
words and phrases appearing in this chapter are not expressly defined
herein, their meaning for purposes of this chapter shall be the same
as such words are defined in the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act,
and such words, if not therein defined, shall be construed consistently
with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.
DISCRIMINATION
Any discriminatory act(s) taken by any person, employer,
entity, employment agency, or labor organization, with respect to
or involving a transaction related to employment, public accommodations,
commercial property or housing accommodations, on the basis of a person's
race, color, religious creed, ancestry, age, sex, national origin,
handicap or disability, use of guide or support animals because of
the blindness, deafness or physical handicap of the user or because
the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals, or a
person's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity
or gender expression.
DISCRIMINATORY ACTS
All acts or actions defined in the Pennsylvania Human Relations
Act as unlawful discriminatory practices as related to employment,
public accommodations, commercial property or housing accommodations,
when those acts or actions are taken on the basis of a person's
race, color, religious creed, ancestry, age, sex, national origin,
handicap or disability, use of guide or support animals because of
the blindness, deafness or physical handicap of the user or because
the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals, or a
person's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity
or gender expression.
EMPLOYER
Any person, including the Township, its departments, boards
and commissions, and any other government agency or school district
within its jurisdiction, and any person employing four or more persons
within the Township, but except as hereinafter provided, does not
include religious, fraternal, charitable or sectarian corporations
or associations, except such corporations or associations supported,
in whole or in part, by governmental appropriations. The term "employer"
with respect to discriminatory practices based on race, color, age,
sex, national origin, non-job-related handicap or disability, includes
religious, fraternal, charitable and sectarian corporations and associations
employing four or more persons within the Township. The term "employer"
excludes persons acting in a supervisory capacity unless they are
an owner of the entity employing the complainant.
GENDER EXPRESSION
The manner in which a person's gender identity is communicated
to or perceived by others, through appearance, behavior, or physical
characteristics that may be in accord with, or opposed to, one's
physical anatomy, chromosomal sex, or sex at birth, and shall include,
but is not limited to, persons who are undergoing or have completed
sex change.
GENDER IDENTITY
The gender(s), or lack thereof, a person self-identifies
as, whether or not based on biological fact or sexual orientation.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS
A.
Includes:
(1)
Any building, structure, mobile home site or facility, or portion
thereof, which is used or occupied or is intended, arranged or designed
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
(2)
Any vacant land offered for sale, lease or held for the purpose
of constructing or locating thereon any such building, structure,
mobile home site or facility.
B.
The term "housing accommodation" shall not include any personal
residence offered for accommodation by the owner or lessee thereof
or by his or her broker, salesperson, agent or employee.
PERSON
One or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations,
corporations, limited liability entities, legal representatives, trustees
in bankruptcy or receivers, including by not limited to any owner,
lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesman, agent, employee,
independent contractor, lending institution and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and all political subdivisions, authorities, boards
and commissions thereof.
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
Any accommodation, resort or amusement which is open to,
accepts or solicits the patronage of the general public, but shall
not include any accommodations which are in their nature distinctly
private.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of Haverford, County of Delaware, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, it shall
not be an unlawful practice for a religious corporation or association,
not supported in whole or in part by governmental appropriations,
to refuse to hire, employ, house or otherwise accommodate an individual
on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity
or gender expression, nor shall an employer be prevented from enforcing
a dress code which is reasonably related to the business or profession
being conducted.
Having exhausted the administrative remedies set forth herein,
nothing in this chapter shall limit the right of an aggrieved person
to pursue any other rights or causes of action at law or in equity
to which such person may be entitled.