2016 New York Laws
CVR - Civil Rights
Article 4 - (Civil Rights) Equal Rights in Places of Public Accommodation and Amusement
40-C - Discrimination.

NY Civ Rights L § 40-C (2016) What's This?

40-c. Discrimination. 1. All persons within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof.

2. No person shall, because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation or disability, as such term is defined in section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, be subjected to any discrimination in his or her civil rights, or to any harassment, as defined in section 240.25 of the penal law, in the exercise thereof, by any other person or by any firm, corporation or institution, or by the state or any agency or subdivision of the state.


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