The following words and phrases, when appearing in this chapter,
shall have the meanings given to them under this section:
BOROUGH
The North Wales Borough, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
BOROUGH COUNCIL
The elected Borough Council of the North Wales Borough, Montgomery
County.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OR HOUSING
The opportunity for an individual to obtain any commercial
property or housing accommodation for which the individual is qualified.
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,
publicly offered commercial property, or housing accommodations on
the basis of a person's actual or perceived race, color, age,
religious creed, ancestry, sex, national origin, political affiliation,
handicap or use of guide or support animals because of blindness,
deafness, hard of hearing, or physical handicap of the user or because
the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals, or because
of an individual's 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, publicly offered commercial property, or housing
accommodations on the basis of a person's actual or perceived
race, color, age, religious creed, ancestry, sex, national origin,
political affiliation, handicap or use of guide or support animals
because of blindness, deafness, hard of hearing, or physical handicap
of the user or because the user is a handler or trainer of support
or guide animals; or, though not set forth in the Pennsylvania Human
Relations Act, because of an individual's sexual orientation,
gender identity or gender expression.
EMPLOYEE
Does not include any individuals who, as a part of their
employment, reside in the personal residence of the employer.
EMPLOYER
Includes the Borough, its departments, boards, and commissions,
and any other governmental agency or school district thereof, and
any person employing one or more persons within the Borough, 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.
EMPLOYMENT
The opportunity for an individual to obtain employment for
which the individual is qualified.
GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION
Self-perception, or perception by others, as male or female,
including an individual's appearance, behavior, or physical characteristics,
that may be in accord with, or opposed to, one's physical anatomy,
chromosomal sex, or assigned sex at birth, and shall include, but
is not limited to, persons who are undergoing or who have completed
sex reassignment, are transgender or gender variant.
ORDINANCE
This chapter, which shall be referred to as the "North Wales
Borough Human Relations Ordinance."
PERSON
Any natural person, fraternal, civic or other membership
organization, corporation, general or limited partnership, proprietorship,
limited-liability company, or similar business organization, including
the Borough, its departments, boards and commissions, and any other
for-profit and nonprofit organization.
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
The opportunity for an individual to access food, beverages
or lodging, 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.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Actual or perceived homosexuality, heterosexuality, asexuality,
intersexuality and/or bisexuality.