A. An animal that has been determined necessary for an individual with a physical or mental disability to mitigate the effects of a physical or mental disability by a physician, psychologist, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, licensed social worker, licensed professional counselor or other licensed health professional with knowledge of the disability-related need for an assistance animal; or   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

B. An animal individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a physical or mental disability, including, but not limited to, guiding individuals with impaired vision, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to intruders or sounds, providing reasonable protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair or retrieving dropped items.   [PL 2015, c. 457, §1 (NEW).]

A. Limiting, segregating or classifying a job applicant or employee in a way that adversely affects the opportunities or status of the applicant or employee because of the protected class of the applicant or employee;   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

B. Participating in a contractual or other arrangement or relationship that has the effect of subjecting a covered entity's qualified applicant or employee to the discrimination prohibited by this Act. A relationship includes a relationship with an employment or referral agency, labor union, an organization providing fringe benefits to an employee of the covered entity or an organization providing training and apprenticeship programs;   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

C. Utilizing standards, criteria or methods of administration:  

D. Excluding or otherwise denying equal jobs or benefits to a qualified individual because of the known protected class status of an individual with whom the qualified individual is known to have a relationship or association;   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

E. Not making reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or employee, unless the covered entity can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business of the covered entity;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §3 (NEW).]

F. Denying employment opportunities to a job applicant or employee who is an otherwise qualified individual with a disability, if the denial is based on the need of the covered entity to make reasonable accommodation to the physical or mental impairments of the employee or applicant;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §3 (NEW).]

G. Using qualification standards, employment tests or other selection criteria that screen out or tend to screen out an individual or a class of individuals based on their protected class status unless the standard, test or other selection criteria, as used by the covered entity, is shown to be job-related for the position in question and is consistent with business necessity; and   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

H. Failing to select and administer tests concerning employment in the most effective manner to ensure that, when the test is administered to a job applicant or employee who has a disability that impairs sensory, manual or speaking skills, the test results accurately reflect the skills, aptitude or any other factor of the applicant or employee that the test purports to measure, rather than reflecting the impaired sensory, manual or speaking skills of the employee or applicant, except when the skills are the factors that the test purports to measure.   [PL 1995, c. 393, §3 (NEW).]

A. One or more individuals who have not attained 18 years of age and are living with a parent or another person having legal custody of the individual or individuals or the designee of the parent or other person having custody with the written permission of the parent or other person; or   [PL 2021, c. 366, §2 (AMD).]

B. [PL 2021, c. 366, §2 (RP).]

B-1. One or more individuals 18 years of age or older who lack the ability to meet essential requirements for physical health, safety or self-care because the individual or individuals are unable to receive and evaluate information or make or communicate decisions.   [PL 2021, c. 366, §2 (NEW).]

A. [PL 2011, c. 613, §6 (RP); PL 2011, c. 613, §29 (AFF).]

B. [PL 2011, c. 613, §6 (RP); PL 2011, c. 613, §29 (AFF).]

C. [PL 2011, c. 613, §6 (RP); PL 2011, c. 613, §29 (AFF).]

A. An inn, hotel, motel or other place of lodging, whether conducted for the entertainment or accommodation of transient guests or those seeking health, recreation or rest;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

B. A restaurant, eating house, bar, tavern, buffet, saloon, soda fountain, ice cream parlor or other establishment serving or selling food or drink;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

C. A motion picture house, theater, concert hall, stadium, roof garden, airdrome or other place of exhibition or entertainment;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

D. An auditorium, convention center, lecture hall or other place of public gathering;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

E. A bakery, grocery store, clothing store, hardware store, shopping center, garage, gasoline station or other sales or rental establishment;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

F. A laundromat, dry cleaner, bank, barber shop, beauty shop, travel service, shoe repair service, funeral parlor, gas station, office of an accountant or lawyer, pharmacy, insurance office, professional office of a health care provider, hospital, dispensary, clinic, bathhouse or other service establishment;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

G. All public conveyances operated on land or water or in the air as well as a terminal, depot or other station used for specified public transportation;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

H. A museum, library, gallery or other place of public display or collection;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

I. A park, zoo, amusement park, race course, skating rink, fair, bowling alley, golf course, golf club, country club, gymnasium, health spa, shooting gallery, billiard or pool parlor, swimming pool, seashore accommodation or boardwalk or other place of recreation, exercise or health;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

J. A nursery, elementary, secondary, undergraduate or postgraduate school or other place of education;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

K. A day care center, senior citizen center, homeless shelter, food bank, adoption agency or other social service center establishment;   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

L. Public elevators of buildings occupied by 2 or more tenants or by the owner and one or more tenants;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

M. A municipal building, courthouse, town hall or other establishment of the State or a local government; and   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

N. Any establishment that in fact caters to, or offers its goods, facilities or services to, or solicits or accepts patronage from, the general public.   [PL 1995, c. 393, §7 (NEW).]

A. The State or any local government;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

B. Any department, agency, special purpose district or other instrumentality of the State, 2 or more states or a local government; and   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

C. A state, local or private commuter authority as defined in the federal Rail Passenger Service Act.   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

A. Subchapter 3 (employment).   [PL 2023, c. 489, §1 (AMD).]

B. [PL 2023, c. 489, §2 (RP).]

A. Making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities; and   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

B. Job restructuring, part-time or modified work schedules, reassignment to a vacant position, leaves of absence, acquisition or modification of equipment or devices, appropriate adjustment or modifications of examinations, training materials or policies, the provision of qualified readers or interpreters and other similar accommodations for individuals with disabilities.   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

A. The nature and cost of the accommodation needed under this Act;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

B. The overall financial resources of the facility or facilities involved in the action, the number of persons employed at the facility, the effect on expenses and resources or the impact otherwise of the action upon the operation of the facility;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

C. The overall financial resources of the covered entity, the overall size of the business of a covered entity with respect to the number of its employees and the number, type and location of its facilities;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

D. The type of operation or operations of the covered entity, including the composition, structure and functions of the work force of the entity, the geographic separateness, administrative or fiscal relationship of the facility or facilities in question to the covered entity;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

E. All the resources available to meet the costs of the accommodation, including any government funding or other grants available for making public accommodations and places of employment accessible;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

F. The extent to which current costs of accommodations have been minimized by past efforts to provide equal access to persons with disabilities;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

G. The extent to which resources spent on improving inaccessible equipment or service could have been spent on making an accommodation so that service or equipment is accessible to individuals with disabilities, as well as to individuals without disabilities;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

H. Documented good faith efforts to explore less restrictive or less expensive alternatives;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

I. The availability of equipment and technology for the accommodation;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

J. Whether an accommodation would result in a fundamental change in the nature of the public accommodation;   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

K. Efforts to minimize costs by spreading costs over time; and   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

L. The extent to which resources saved by failing to make an accommodation for persons who have disabilities could have been saved by cutting costs in equipment or services for the general public.   [PL 1995, c. 393, §8 (NEW).]

A. [PL 2015, c. 457, §2 (RP).]

B. For the purposes of subchapter 5, a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual or other mental disability. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the purposes of this definition. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the individual's disability. Examples of such work or tasks include, but are not limited to, assisting an individual who is totally or partially blind with navigation and other tasks, alerting an individual who is deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or sounds, providing nonviolent protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting an individual to the presence of allergens, retrieving items such as medicine or a telephone, providing physical support and assistance with balance and stability to an individual with a mobility disability and helping a person with a psychiatric or neurological disability by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors. The crime deterrent effects of an animal's presence and the provision of emotional support, well-being, comfort or companionship do not constitute work or tasks for the purposes of this definition.   [PL 2011, c. 369, §2 (NEW).]

A. Unlawful employment discrimination as defined and limited by subchapter 3;   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

B. Unlawful housing discrimination as defined and limited by subchapter 4;   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

C. Unlawful public accommodations discrimination as defined by subchapter 5;   [PL 2019, c. 464, §1 (AMD).]

D. Aiding, abetting, inciting, compelling or coercing another to do any of such types of unlawful discrimination; obstructing or preventing any person from complying with this Act or any order issued in this subsection; attempting to do any act of unlawful discrimination; and punishing or penalizing, or attempting to punish or penalize, any person for seeking to exercise any of the civil rights declared by this Act or for complaining of a violation of this Act or for testifying in any proceeding brought in this subsection;   [PL 1983, c. 578, §2 (AMD).]

E. In determining whether a person is acting as an agent or employee of another person so as to make such other person responsible for that person's acts, the question of whether the specific acts performed were actually authorized or subsequently ratified is not controlling;   [PL 2005, c. 10, §4 (AMD).]

F. Unlawful educational discrimination as defined and limited by subchapter 5‑B;   [PL 2023, c. 489, §4 (AMD).]

G. Discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodation, credit and educational opportunity on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, except that a religious corporation, association or organization that does not receive public funds is exempt from this provision with respect to:  

H. Unlawful discrimination by public entities as described in section 4630.   [PL 2023, c. 489, §6 (NEW).]