§ 27-11. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Operator shall mean and include any owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or occupant of a place of accommodation or an employee or independent contractor of any such person.

Public accommodation shall mean a place of public accommodation owned or operated by a person including, but not limited to, lodgings, facilities principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, gasoline stations, places of exhibition or entertainment, and other covered establishments. Each of the following establishments owned or operated by a person and which serve the public is a place of public accommodation within the meaning of this section:

(1)

Any inn, hotel, motel, resort or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than four (4) rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his or her residence.

(2)

Any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, buffet or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the premises of any retail establishment, or any gasoline station.

(3)

Any tavern, bar, liquor lounge, package store or other facility holding a license for the sale of alcoholic beverages issued by the division of alcoholic beverages and tobacco of the department of business and professional regulation of the state, and which serves or which holds itself out as serving the general public.

(4)

Any pool or billiard hall, bowling alley, motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, place of amusement, skating rink, amusement park, golf courses, swimming pool, or other place of exhibition or entertainment.

(5)

Any gasoline station, retail establishment, convenience store, beauty parlor, barbershop, styling salon, or laundries.

(6)

Facilities, or portions of facilities, when open to the general public, including, but not limited to: hospitals, nurseries, schools, libraries or educational facilities supported in part or whole by public funds, kindergartens, day care centers.

(7)

Any transportation conveyance open to the general public, including, but not limited to: taxis, limousines, trains, and buses.

(8)

Any professional office, generally open to the public, such as those of attorneys, physicians, dentists, architects, or accountants.

(9)

Any establishment which is physically located within the premises of any establishment otherwise covered by this section, or within the premises of which is physically located any such covered establishment, and which holds itself out as serving patrons of such covered establishment.

(Ord. No. 2015-50, § 2, 8-17-15)