For the purposes of this division:
Every bar, lounge or tavern licensed by the state to serve alcoholic beverages of any content, including wines and beer, for consumption on the premises, other than restaurants and nightclubs as defined in this section.
Every establishment offering lodging to transient guests for compensation.
Nightclubs, cabarets or coffeehouses offering facilities for public entertainment, social recreation or group amusement or relaxation, and also offering for sale any beverage, whether alcoholic or non-alcoholic.
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. “Place of public accommodation” shall include all hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, lounges, nightclubs or cabarets where food or beverages are sold or offered for sale, theaters, retail houses, washaterias, bowling alleys, skating rinks, golf courses and all public conveyances, as well as the stations or terminals thereof.
Every cafe, cafeteria, coffee shop, sandwich shop, parlor or luncheonette which offers food or beverages for purchase and consumption on the premises, but shall not include places at which alcoholic beverages are sold other than as an accompaniment to meals.
Every place, whether indoors or outdoors, at which any theatrical performance, moving picture show, musical concert, circus or carnival is offered for compensation.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.901)
It is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation or any employee or agent thereof within the city to discriminate against, withhold from or deny any person, because of race, color or national origin, any of the advantages, facilities or services offered to the general public by a place of public accommodation.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.902)
This division shall not, however, apply to any hotel, motel, restaurant, bar, lounge, nightclub, cabaret or theater operated by a bona fide private club 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, or to any private kindergarten, day care center or nursery school, when the profits of such accommodations, advantages, facilities and services, above reasonable and necessary expenses, are solely for the benefit of such organization.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.903)
This division shall neither add to nor detract from any civil remedies now available to persons complaining of discrimination under this division.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.904)
Any person violating any provision of this division shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine in accordance with the general penalty provision found in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(2001 Code, sec. 8.905)