10:1-3. Exclusions based on race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, or sex unlawful


10:1-3.  Exclusions based on race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry,  marital status, or sex unlawful
    No owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of  any such place shall directly or indirectly refuse, withhold from, or deny to,  any person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges  thereof, or directly or indirectly publish, circulate, issue, display, post, or  mail any written or printed communication, notice or advertisement to the  effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of  any such place shall be refused, withheld from, or denied to, any person on  account of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status or  sex, or that the patronage or custom thereat of any person belonging to or purporting to be of any particular race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status or sex, is unwelcome, objectionable or not acceptable,  desired or solicited; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall  be construed to bar any place of public accommodation which is in its nature  reasonably restricted exclusively to individuals of one sex, and which shall  include but not be limited to any summer camp, day camp or resort camp,  bathhouse, dressing room, swimming pool, gymnasium, comfort station,  dispensary, clinic or hospital, or school or educational institution which is restricted exclusively to individuals of one sex, from refusing, withholding from or denying to any individual of the opposite sex any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof on the basis of sex;  provided further, that the foregoing limitation shall not apply to any restaurant as defined in R.S. 33:1-1 or place where alcoholic beverages are served.

     Amended by L.1945, c. 168, p. 587, s. 1;  L.1970, c. 80, s. 1, eff. June 2, 1970.
 
10:1-4.  Written announcement of discrimination;  presumption
    The production of any such written or printed communication, notice or advertisement, purporting to relate to any such place and to be made by any owner, lessee, proprietor, superintendent or manager thereof, shall be presumptive evidence in any civil or criminal action that the same was authorized by such person.
 
10:1-5.  Place of public accommodation, resort or amusement defined
    A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within the meaning of this chapter shall be deemed to include any inn, tavern, road house or hotel, whether for entertainment of transient guests or accommodation of those seeking  health, recreation or rest;  any restaurant, eating house, or place where food  is sold for consumption on the premises;  any place maintained for sale of ice  cream, ice and fruit preparations or their derivatives, soda water or  confections, or where any beverages of any kind are retailed for consumption on  the premises;  any garage, any public conveyance operated on land or water, and  stations and terminals thereof; any public bathhouse, public boardwalk, public  seashore accommodation; any theater, or other place of public amusement,  motion-picture house, airdrome, music hall, roof garden, skating rink,  amusement and recreation park, fair, bowling alley, gymnasium, shooting  gallery, billiard and pool parlor;  any dispensary, clinic, hospital, public  library, kindergarten, primary and secondary school, high school, academy,  college and university, or any educational institution under the supervision of  the regents of the state of New Jersey.  Nothing contained in sections 10:1-2 to 10:1-7 of this title shall be construed to include, or to apply to, any institution, club, or place of accommodation which is in its nature distinctly  private, or to prohibit the mailing of a private communication in writing sent  in response to a specific written inquiry.