§ 12-4-8. Public accommodations.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any public accommodations to discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status or disability with respect to the access, use of, benefit of or enjoyment of goods, services, facilities, privileges or any other advantages of any public accommodation, or to make or publish any statement evidencing an intent to do so.

(b)

Nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall prohibit a religious organization, association or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association or society, from limiting its offerings of goods, services, facilities and accommodations to persons of the same religion or from giving preference to these persons; provided, that the offerings above-mentioned are not, in fact, offered for commercial purposes. Nor shall anything in this section prohibit a nonprofit private club, in fact not open to the public, which, incident to its primary purpose provides certain public accommodations herein defined, for other than commercial purposes, from limiting the accommodations to its members, or giving preference to its members and guests of its members. Nor shall anything in this section make unlawful any program, service or benefit, relating to any public accommodation, established and intended solely for elderly persons or minors.

(c)

Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any licensee or permittee of the alcoholic beverage control commission from refusing to sell or dispense alcoholic beverages to persons under 21 years of age, if such licensee or permittee:

(1)

posts in a public and conspicuous place its policy with respect to serving persons under the age 21; and

(2)

adopts and enforces a uniform nondiscriminatory policy with respect to all such persons under the age of 21. (Code 1963, Sec. 18A-8; Ord. No. 2517, 10/14/70, Sec. 7; Ord. No. 2558, 4/28/81, Sec. 3; Ord. No. 3328, 10/15/88, Sec. 6; Ord. No. 3498, 2/23/91, Sec. 7; Ord. No. 5258, 12/14/19, Sec. 1)