2006 New York Code - Protecting Civil And Public Rights.



 
    §  44-a.  Protecting  civil  and  public  rights.    A  person who: 1.
  Excludes a citizen of this state,  by  reason  of  race,  color,  creed,
  national  origin  or  previous  condition  of servitude, from any public
  employment or employment  in  any  capacity  in  industries  engaged  in
  defense  contracts  or  from  the  equal enjoyment of any accommodation,
  facility or privilege furnished by innkeepers or common carriers, or  by
  owners, managers or lessees of theatres or other places of amusement, or
  by  teachers  and  officers of common schools and public institutions of
  learning; or,
    2. Excludes a citizen of this state by reason of race, color, national
  origin or previous condition of servitude from the  equal  enjoyment  of
  any  accommodation,  facility  or  privilege  furnished  by  a  cemetery
  association or associations; or,
    3. Denies or aids or incites another  to  deny  to  any  other  person
  because  of  race,  creed, color or national origin public employment or
  employment in any capacity in industries engaged in war contracts or the
  full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities  and
  privileges  of  any hotel, inn, tavern, restaurant, public conveyance on
  land or water, theatre or other place of public resort or amusement;
    Is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than  fifty
  dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

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