<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 42-1. - Definitions.</div>
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               <span class="ital">Discrimination</span> means any difference in treatment based on race, natural hair or hairstyles, ethnicity,
               creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin
               or ancestry, marital or familial status, pregnancy, veteran status, religious belief
               or nonbelief, age, or disability.
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               <span class="ital">Employer</span> means any person employing one or more persons within the county and any person acting
               in the interest of an employer, directly or indirectly, including an employment agency.
               "Employer" shall include the county and any county contractor.
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               <span class="ital">Gender identity or expression</span> means having or being perceived as having gender-related identity, expression, appearance,
               or behavior, whether or not that identity, expression, appearance, or behavior is
               different from that traditionally associated with the sex assigned to that individual
               at birth.
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations,
               legal representatives, unincorporated organizations, fiduciaries, and other organized
               groups of persons.
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               <span class="ital">Public accommodation (or place of public accommodation)</span> means any place, facility, store, or other establishment which supplies accommodations,
               goods, or services to the public or which solicits or accepts the patronage or trade
               of the public.
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               <span class="ital">Reasonable cause</span> means in preponderance of the evidence which is evidence, when taken as a whole,
               shows the violation is more likely than not.
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            <p class="historynote0">
               (Ord. No.
               <a class="ordinance-link" href="" data-product-id="12776" data-ordinance-id="1129356">
                  21-04-18
                  </a>
               , Â§ 1, 4-20-21)
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