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The Fair Housing Officer shall prepare an annual report detailing the work performed, including a statistical analysis of the caseload, a summary of dispositions of complaints filed and/or referred to housing agencies, and recommendations regarding fair housing practices. This report shall be submitted to the Mayor and filed with the City Clerk no later than March 1 of each year. Copies shall also be sent to the Commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights, the Attorney General of the State of New York, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Nothing in this article shall limit or abridge the right of a complainant to pursue any other remedies that may be available under the laws of the State of New York, the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction.

Nothing in this article shall be construed to invalidate or limit any law of the State of New York, the United States or any other jurisdiction that grants, guarantees or protects the same rights that are granted, guaranteed or protected by this article.

If any part of this article shall, for any reason, be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not impair or invalidate the remainder of this article.

[Adopted 5-28-2013]

The City of Buffalo, its vendors, and any employer located within the City of Buffalo limits shall not ask questions regarding or pertaining to an applicant's prior criminal conviction on preliminary employment application. Consideration of the candidate's prior criminal convictions shall take place only after an application is submitted and to begin during an initial interview, or thereafter.

For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

APPLICANT Any person considered or who requests to be considered for employment by an employer.

CITY The City of Buffalo, its departments, administrative units and related agencies.

CONVICTION Any sentence imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction arising from a verdict or plea of guilty, including a sentence of incarceration, a suspended sentence, a sentence of probation, an unconditional discharge, or diversion program.

EMPLOYER The City or any person, partnership, corporation, labor organization, not-for-profit, or association having 15 or more employees.

EMPLOYMENT An occupation, vocation, job, work for pay, including temporary or seasonal work, contracted work, contingent work, and work through the services of a temporary or other employment agency; or any form of vocational or educational training with or without pay. "Employment" shall not, for the purposes of this chapter, include employment by any government law enforcement agency.

INTERVIEW Any direct contact by the employer with the applicant, whether in person or by telephone, to discuss the employment being sought or the applicant's qualifications.

VENDOR Any vendor, contractor, or supplier of goods or services to the City of Buffalo, including vendors located outside the City of Buffalo limits.

A. Effective the first day of January 2014, it shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to make any inquiry regarding, or to require any person to disclose or reveal, any criminal conviction during the application process. The application process shall begin when the applicant inquires about the employment sought and shall end when an employer has accepted an employment application.[Amended 6-25-2013] B. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to make any inquiry regarding, or to require any person to disclose or reveal, any criminal conviction against such person before a first interview. If an employer does not conduct an interview, that employer must inform the applicant whether a criminal background check...

A. The prohibitions of this article shall not apply if the inquiries or adverse actions prohibited herein are specifically authorized by any other applicable law. B. The prohibitions of this article shall not apply to the Department of Police or the Department of Fire, or to any other employer hiring for police officer and peace officer positions, as defined by Criminal Procedure Law §§ 1.20 and 2.10. C. The prohibitions of this article shall not apply to any public or private school, nor to any public or private service provider of direct services specific to the care or supervision of children, young adults, senior citizens, or the physically or mentally disabled.

A. Any person aggrieved by a violation of this article may commence a civil action or proceeding for injunctive relief, damages, and other appropriate relief in law or equity against a person who violates this article. In any such action or proceeding, the court, in its discretion, may allow for the party commencing such action or proceeding, if such party prevails, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs. B. Any person or organization, whether or not an aggrieved party, may file with the Commission on Citizens' Rights and Community Relations a complaint alleging violation of this article. Such complaint shall be in writing on a form prescribed by the Commission on Citizens' Rights. C. Upon certification by the Commission on Citizens' Rights ...

[HISTORY. Derived from Art. II of Ch. XXV of the Charter and Ordinances, 1974, of the City of Buffalo. Amendments noted where applicable.] GENERAL REFERENCES Burials — See Ch. 116. Code enforcement of health provisions — See Ch. 137, Art. II. Sanitation — See Ch. 378.

The following diseases are referred to in this chapter as being infectious diseases: A. Contagious diseases (very readily communicable): measles, rubella (rotheln), scarlet fever, smallpox, varicella (chicken pox), typhus fever, relapsing fever, bubonic plague, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), influenza (epidemic influenza, Spanish influenza) and pneumonia, all forms, including bronchopneumonia. B. Communicable diseases: diphteria (croup in all forms), typhoid fever, Asiatic cholera, anthrax, glanders, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, tuberculosis (of any organ), infectious eye diseases (trachoma, suppurative conjunctivitis, ophthalmia neonatorum), puerperal septicemia, erysipelas, whooping cough, syphillis and gonorrhea. ...

A. Whenever a communicable disease is prevalent or exists in any school, factory, hotel, lodging house, tenement house or in any other place and the Health Commissioner has reasonable grounds to believe that any person who has been in attendance at or employed in any such place has contracted said disease from or been exposed to a convalescent carrier or a contract carrier of said disease or if there is a reasonable probability that said disease may have been so contracted, the Health Commissioner is hereby authorized to take all necessary means to ascertain and identify, so far as possible, what person or persons, if any, is such a carrier. B. The Health Commissioner is hereby authorized to quarantine or remove to an appropriate hospital any person su...