(1) It is the policy of the City in the exercise of its police power for the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the City and its inhabitants to prohibit discrimination in places of public accommodation, resort, or amusement due to race, color, religion, ancestry, or national origin. All persons have the right to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within City subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons. This right is recognized and declared to be a civil right.

(2) No person being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within City shall directly or indirectly refuse, withhold from or deny to any person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, and no person shall directly or indirectly publish, circulate, issue, display, post or mail or cause to be published, circulated, issued, displayed, posted or mailed within the City any written, painted or printed communication, notice or advertisement to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of a place of public accommodations, resort or amusement shall be refused, withheld from or denied to any person on account of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, or that the patronage or custom thereof of any person belonging to or purporting to be of any particular race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin is unwelcome, objectionable or not acceptable, desired or solicited. The production of any such written, painted or printed communication, notice or advertisement, purporting to relate to any such place and to be made by any person being the owner, lessee, proprietor, superintendent, manager, agent or employee thereof, shall be presumptive evidence in any proceedings that the same was authorized and published by such person.

(3) A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within the meaning of this Section shall be deemed to include lodging facilities, whether conducted for the entertainment of transient guests or for the accommodation of those seeking health, recreation or rest; restaurants, eating houses and any place where food is sold for consumption on the premises, buffets, saloons, barrooms, and any store, park or enclosure where spirituous or malt liquors are sold; ice cream parlors, confectioneries, soda fountains, and all stores where ice cream, ice and fruit preparations or their derivatives, or where beverages of any kind are retailed for consumption on the premises; dispensaries, clinics, hospitals, bathhouses, theaters, motion picture houses, music halls, concert halls, circuses, race courses, skating rinks, amusement and recreation parks, fairs, bowling alleys, golf courses, gymnasiums, shooting galleries, billiard and pool parlors, swimming pools, public libraries, garages; all public conveyances operated on land, water or in the air, as well as the stations and terminals thereof; public halls and public elevators of buildings and structures occupied by two or more tenants, or by the owner and one or more tenants. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to include any institution, club or place of accommodation which is in its nature distinctly private.

(4) The provisions and requirements of this Section shall bind and obligate every owner, lessee, operator, proprietor, manager, agent and employee, whether a natural person, corporation, or unincorporated association, engaged in or exercising control over the operation of any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement; provided, that whenever any agent or employee shall so exercise any function or employ any power with which he is charged or entrusted as to violate any provisions of this Section, both he and his principal or employer shall be held equally responsible.