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2019 New York Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 15 - Human Rights Law
291 - Equality of Opportunity a Civil Right.

Universal Citation: NY Exec L § 291 (2019)
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§ 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, gender
  identity  or  expression,  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,  gender
  identity  or  expression,  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.

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