N.Y. Civil Rights Law Section 44-A
Protecting civil and public rights

A person who:

1.

Excludes a citizen of this state, by reason of race, color, creed, national origin or previous condition of servitude, from any public employment or employment in any capacity in industries engaged in defense contracts or from the equal enjoyment of any accommodation, facility or privilege furnished by innkeepers or common carriers, or by owners, managers or lessees of theatres or other places of amusement, or by teachers and officers of common schools and public institutions of learning; or, 2. Excludes a citizen of this state by reason of race, color, national origin or previous condition of servitude from the equal enjoyment of any accommodation, facility or privilege furnished by a cemetery association or associations; or, 3. Denies or aids or incites another to deny to any other person because of race, creed, color or national origin public employment or employment in any capacity in industries engaged in war contracts or the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any hotel, inn, tavern, restaurant, public conveyance on land or water, theatre or other place of public resort or amusement; Is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

Source: Section 44-A — Protecting civil and public rights, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/CVR/44-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 21, 2024).

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