As used in this division, the term “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, trailer parks, 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 operated on land, air or water as well as the stations or terminals thereof.
(1964 Code, sec. 14A-2)
Any person violating any provision of this division shall be punished by fine of no less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).
(1964 Code, sec. 14A-4)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation or any employee or agent thereof, within the city, to withhold from or deny any person, because of race, color or ethnic origin, any of the advantages, facilities or services offered to the general public by a place of public accommodation.
(1964 Code, sec. 14A-1)
The city council shall receive and investigate all complaints of alleged violations of this division. It shall endeavor to adjust such complaints by persuasion and conciliation between the interested parties. Any complaint received by the city council shall be acted upon by the city council within fifteen days after its receipt. The city council shall take action as it deems appropriate with regard to each complaint, including, but not limited to, the holding of public or private hearings by the full council or a committee of at least three members appointed by the mayor of the city. If the efforts of the city council and/or the committee fail to resolve any complaint within fifteen days from the date a complaint is referred to said committee, said committee shall refer the complaint to the city attorney for appropriate legal action. No person shall be convicted of a violation of this division until the city council and/or the committee or its duly authorized agent certifies in writing that conciliation between the interested parties has been unsuccessful or until thirty-five days after the original complaint was filed with the city council. No action of the city council or the committee shall be admissible in any trial of an alleged violation of this division except the above-mentioned certificate; provided, however, any evidence presented to the city council during the course of any hearing may be admitted in the course of a judicial trial, if such evidence would ordinarily be admissible under the rules of evidence in this state.
(1964 Code, sec. 14A-3)
This division shall not apply to:
(1) 
Any hotel, motel, restaurant, or place of amusement which is operated as a bona fide private club if the facilities and services are restricted to members of such club and their invited guests;
(2) 
Any bona fide social, fraternal, educational, civic, political or religious organization if the profits from any facilities or services defined above are used solely for the benefit of such organization;
(3) 
Any hotel or motel located within a building which contains less than six (6) rooms for rent or hire and which is also actually occupied by the proprietor as his residence.
(1964 Code, sec. 14A-5)
This division shall neither add to nor detract from any civil remedies now available, or which may become available, to persons subject to discrimination on the basis of race, color or ethnic origin.
(1964 Code, sec. 14A-6)