The
following words and phrases appearing with initial capital letters
when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in
this subsection.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Lansdowne, County of Delaware, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
CHAPTER
This chapter, which shall also be known as the "Anti-Discrimination
Ordinance."
COUNCIL
The Borough Council of the Borough of Lansdowne.
DISCRIMINATION
Discriminatory acts taken by any person, including but not
limited to Employers, on the basis of race, color, gender, religion,
national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,
familial status, age, veteran status, mental or physical disability,
pregnancy, use of guide or support animals and/or mechanical aids
because of blindness, deafness or other disabilities, or any other
bases prohibited by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.
DISCRIMINATORY ACTS
Includes any difference in treatment in hiring, referring
for hire, promoting, training, in membership, in employee or labor
organizations or with respect to compensation, hire, tenure, terms,
conditions or privileges of employment; in rendering service in places
of public accommodation; in the sale, lease, rental or financing of
housing and/or any other acts defined as "unlawful discriminatory
practices" by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.
EMPLOYER
Any person who employs one or more employees (exclusive of
parents, spouse or children employed solely for domestic noncommercial
purposes), including the Borough, its departments, boards and commissions,
but excluding any fraternal, sectarian, charitable or educational
group which is operated, supervised or controlled by or in connection
with a religious organization or religious group or any individuals
who as part of their employment reside in the home of their employer.
GENDER IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION
Self perception, or perception by others, as male or female,
and shall include an individual's appearance, behavior or physical
characteristics that may be in accord with, or opposed to, one's
physical anatomy, chromosomal sex or sex assigned at birth, and shall
include, but is not limited to, persons who are undergoing or have
completed sex reassignment.
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 other for-profit
and nonprofit organizations.
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS
Any accommodation, resort or amusement which is open to,
accepts or solicits the patronage of the general public, including
but not limited to inns, taverns, roadhouses, hotels, motels, whether
conducted for the entertainment of transient guests or for the accommodation
of those seeking health-related services, recreation or restaurants
or eating houses, or any place where food is sold for consumption
on the premises, buffets, saloon barrooms or any store, park or enclosure
where spirituous or malt liquors are sold, ice cream parlors, confectioneries,
soda fountains and all stores where ice cream, ice and fruit preparations
or their derivatives, or where beverages of any kind are retailed
for consumption on the premises, drugstores, dispensaries, clinics,
hospitals, nursing homes, substance-abuse treatment or rehabilitation
programs, ambulance services, health care providers' professional
offices, bathhouses, swimming pools, barbershops, beauty parlors,
retail stores and establishments, theaters, motion-picture houses,
airdromes, roof gardens, music halls, race courses, skating rinks,
amusement and recreation parks, fairs, bowling alleys, gymnasiums,
shooting galleries, billiard and pool parlors, public libraries, kindergartens,
primarily and secondary schools, high schools, academies, colleges
and universities, extension courses and all educational institutions,
mortuaries and funeral parlors, nonsectarian cemeteries, garages and
all public conveyances operated on land or water or in the air as
well as the stations, terminals and airports, financial institutions
and all Borough facilities and services but not any accommodations
which are in their nature distinctly private.