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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

27-12, title "Unlawful practices"; Section 27-13, title
"Posting of notices; reports to be filed"; Section 27-17,
title "Declaration of policy"; and Section 27—19, title
"Unlawful employment practices"; to declare it to be the
public policy of the County to eliminate discrimination,
prejudice, intolerance or bigotry on the basis of physical,
mental or emotional handicaps; to add to the powers and
duties of the Commission on Human Relations the
responsibility to promote equal rights and opportunities for
all persons regardless of physical, mental or emotional
handicaps and to study and investigate conditions which may
result in discrimination on the basis of physical
disability; to declare it unlawful for places of public
accommodation to discriminate on the basis of physical,
mental, or emotional handicap; to declare it an unlawful
practice for any person, real estate broker or real estate
salesperson to discriminate in housing matters on the basis
of physical, mental, or emotional handicaps; to prohibit any
lending institution from discriminating on the basis of
physical, mental or emotional handicap in lending money,
guaranteeing loans, accepting deeds of trust or mortgages,
or fixing rates and conditions of such transactions in
connection with housing; to require that fair housing
notices posted by real estate brokers specify that it shall
be unlawful to deny housing to or otherwise to discriminate
against persons on the basis of physical, mental or
emotional handicap; to provide generally for the prohibition
of discriminatory employment practices because of physical,
mental or emotional handicap; to provide definitions
generally concerning handicap and related words and phrases;
to prohibit any employer to fail or refuse to hire, or to
discharge, any individual or to otherwise discriminate
against any individual or to limit, segregate or classify
employees so as to affect adversely any individual's
employment opportunities or status as an employee because of
physical, mental or emotional handicap; to prohibit any
person, employer, labor organization of employment agency
from printing or otherwise publishing any notice or
advertisement relating to employment which indicates any
preference, limitation, or specification based on physical,
mental or emotional handicap except when such a preference,
limitation or specification is a bona fide occupational
qualification for employment; to provide that it shall be
unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire an
employee, for an employment agency to classify or refer for
employment any individual, or for a labor organization to
classify its membership, on the basis of physical, mental or
emotional handicap, except in those certain instances where
such basis is a bona fide occupational qualification
reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the
particular business or enterprise.

Approved October 3, 1977.

Bill No. 13-77