2012 New York Consolidated Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 15 - (290 - 301) HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
291 - Equality of opportunity a civil right.

 
    § 291. Equality of opportunity a civil right.
    1. The opportunity to obtain employment without discrimination because
  of  age,  race,  creed,  color,  national  origin,  sexual  orientation,
  military  status,  sex,  marital  status,  or  disability,   is   hereby
  recognized as and declared to be a civil right.
    2.  The  opportunity  to obtain education, the use of places of public
  accommodation  and  the  ownership,  use  and   occupancy   of   housing
  accommodations  and  commercial  space without discrimination because of
  age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual  orientation,  military
  status,  sex, marital status, or disability, as specified in section two
  hundred ninety-six of this article, is hereby recognized as and declared
  to be a civil right.
    3.  The  opportunity  to  obtain  medical  treatment  of   an   infant
  prematurely born alive in the course of an abortion shall be the same as
  the rights of an infant born spontaneously.