Amending Chapter 2 South Bend Human Rights Ordinance

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Section 2 -128. Definitions (a) The term "Commission" shall mean the South Bend Human Rights Commission. (b) The term "director" shall mean the Director of the South Bend Human Rights Commission. (c) The term "Commission attorney" shall mean the City Attorney or such assistants of the City Attorney as may be assigned to the Commission, or such other attorney as may be engaged by the Commission with the consent of the City Attorney. (d) The term "employee" shall mean any person employed by another for wages or salary; provided, that it should not include any person employed by his or her parents, spouse or child. (e) The term "employer" shall include the City of South Bend, or any department thereof, and any person employing six (6) or more employees within the City, except that the term does not include: (1) any bonafide private membership club (other than a labor organization) which is exempt from taxation under Section 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954; 149P Skala 44e #ear?► }nelede (2) any school, educational or charitable institution owned or conducted by or affiliated with, a church or religious institution to the extent that the school, educational or charitable institution hires employees of a particular religion. (3) any office officer, board, commission, department division. bureau, committee fund, agency, and without limitation by reason of any enumeration herein, any other any penal institution and any other institutional enterprise and ar±t - ivity nfl fi,o -4 -..4- (f) The term "employment agency" shall mean any person undertaking_ with or without compensation to procure, recruit, refer or place employees. (g) The term "labor organization" shall mean any organization which exists and is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment or of mutual aid or Protection in connection with employment. (h) The term "educational institution" shall mean all public and private schools and trainings centers except those affiliated with religious institutions, only insofar as they may give preference to members of their religious group in selecting their students, except that they shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin. (i) The term "discriminatory practice" shall mean the exclusion of a person by another person from equal opportunity because of race, religion, color, sex, handicap, national origin or ancestry; or a system which excludes persons from equal opportunity because of race, religion, racial segregation or separation in any manner, including but not limited to, the inducing of, or attempting to induce, for profit, any persons to sell or rent any dwelling by reports regarding the entry or prospective entry in the neighborhood of a person or nersons of a particular race, religion, color, sex, handicap, national origin or ancestry. Every discriminatory practice relating to the acquisition or sale of real property, education, public accommodations or employment shall be considered unlawful unless it is specifically exempted by this article. - 2 -