New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 10 - Civil Rights

• Section 10:1-1 - Right Of Citizens To Hold Office Or Employment; No Discrimination Because Of Sex Or Marital Status
  The right of citizens of this State to hold office or employment shall be coextensive with their right to vote, shall be equal as...
• Section 10:1-2 - Equal Rights And Privileges Of All Persons In Public Places
  All persons within the jurisdiction of this state shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any places...
• Section 10:1-3 - Exclusions Based On Race, Creed, Color, National Origin, Ancestry, Marital Status, Or Sex Unlawful
  No owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any such place shall directly or indirectly refuse, withhold from, or deny to, any...
• Section 10:1-4 - Written Announcement Of Discrimination; Presumption
  The production of any such written or printed communication, notice or advertisement, purporting to relate to any such place and to be made by...
• Section 10:1-5 - Place Of Public Accommodation, Resort Or Amusement Defined
  A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within the meaning of this chapter shall be deemed to include any inn, tavern, road house...
• Section 10:1-6 - Penalty And Punishment
  Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 10:1-2 to 10:1-5 of this Title by denying to any citizen, except for...
• Section 10:1-7 - Jurisdiction; Costs And Attorney's Fees
  10:1-7. The aggrieved party or parties in any action authorized by R.S.10:1-6 may institute said action in the name of the State of New...
• Section 10:1-8 - Jurors Not Disqualified For Race, Color, Creed, National Origin, Ancestry, Marital Status, Or Sex; Penalty
  No citizen possessing all other qualifications prescribed by law shall be disqualified for service as a grand or petit juror in any court on...
• Section 10:1-9 - Discrimination Due To Color Or Sex In Burial Of Dead, Misdemeanor
  No cemetery corporation, association or company, organized under any law of this State, owning or having control of any cemetery or place for the...
• Section 10:1-10 - Defense Industries; Discrimination In Employment Based On Race, Color, Creed, National Origin, Ancestry, Marital Status Or Sex
  It shall be unlawful for any employer engaged to any extent whatsoever in the production, manufacture or distribution of military or naval material, equipment...
• Section 10:1-11 - Exclusion From, Denial Of, Or Aid Or Incitement Of Another To Deny Public Employment Or Employment In Defense Industry
  Any employer or person who (1) Excludes a citizen by reason of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, marital status or sex, from any...
• Section 10:1-12 - "Employer" And "Industry" Defined
  (a) "Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative or any organized group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the...
• Section 10:2-1 - Antidiscrimination Provisions.
  10:2-1. Antidiscrimination provisions. Every contract for or on behalf of the State or any county or municipality or other political subdivision of the State,...
• Section 10:2-2 - Complaint Of Violation; Decision Of Attorney General Final
  Complaint of violation of section 10:2-1 of this Title shall be made to the Attorney General or his representative within the Department of Law...
• Section 10:2-3 - Rules And Regulations; Notice Of Complaint And Hearing
  The Attorney General shall adopt, promulgate, amend and rescind suitable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Title. The Attorney General...
• Section 10:2-4 - Notice Of Decision; Fixing Penalty
  On rendering his decision under section 10:2-2 of this Title, the Attorney General or his representative shall notify the State agency, or county or...
• Section 10:3-1 - Age Discrimination Prohibited; Exceptions.
  1.In the selection of persons for employment in the service of the State, or of any county or municipality thereof, no appointing officer shall...
• Section 10:4-6 - "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act."
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act." L.1975,c.231,s.1; amended 2006, c.70, s.2.
• Section 10:4-7 - Legislative Findings And Declaration
  The Legislature finds and declares that the right of the public to be present at all meetings of public bodies, and to witness in...
• Section 10:4-8 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Public body" means a commission, authority, board, council, committee or any other group of two or more persons...
• Section 10:4-9 - Meeting Of Public Body; Adequate Notice To Public; Necessity; Exceptions
  a. Except as provided by subsection b. of this section, or for any meeting limited only to consideration of items listed in section 7....
• Section 10:4-9.1 - Electronic Notice Of Meeting Of Public Body; Terms Defined
  1.In addition to the notice requirements of the "Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.), a public body may provide electronic notice...
• Section 10:4-9.2 - Construction Of Act
  2.Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting or superseding the adequate notice requirements that are imposed by the "Open Public Meetings Act,"...
• Section 10:4-10 - Statement In Minutes Of Meeting On Adequate Notice
  At the commencement of every meeting of a public body the person presiding shall announce publicly, and shall cause to be entered in the...
• Section 10:4-11 - Failure To Invite Portion Of Members To Circumvent Provisions Of Act; Prohibition
  No person or public body shall fail to invite a portion of its members to a meeting for the purpose of circumventing the provisions...
• Section 10:4-12 - Meetings Open To Public; Exceptions.
  7. a. Except as provided by subsection b. of this section all meetings of public bodies shall be open to the public at all...
• Section 10:4-13 - Exclusion Of Public; Resolution; Adoption; Contents
  No public body shall exclude the public from any meeting to discuss any matter described in subsection 7. b. until the public body shall...
• Section 10:4-14 - Minutes Of Meetings; Availability To Public
  Each public body shall keep reasonably comprehensible minutes of all its meetings showing the time and place, the members present, the subjects considered, the...
• Section 10:4-15 - Proceeding In Lieu Of Prerogative Writ To Void Action At Nonconforming Meeting; Parties; Limitation; Corrective Or Remedial Action
  a. Any action taken by a public body at a meeting which does not conform with the provisions of this act shall be voidable...
• Section 10:4-16 - Injunctive Orders Or Other Remedies To Insure Compliance
  Any person, including a member of the public, may apply to the Superior Court for injunctive orders or other remedies to insure compliance with...
• Section 10:4-17 - Penalty; Enforcement
  12. Any person who knowingly violates any of the foregoing sections of this act shall be fined $100.00 for the first offense and no...
• Section 10:4-18 - Schedule Of Regular Meetings Of Public Body; Publicity; Revision; Procedure
  At least once each year, within 7 days following the annual organization or reorganization meeting of a public body, or if there be no...
• Section 10:4-19 - Requests For Notices Of Meetings; Annual Renewal
  Any person may request that a public body mail to him copies of any regular meeting schedule or revision described in section 13 of...
• Section 10:4-20 - Severability
  If any section, subsection, clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall, for any...
• Section 10:4-21 - Liberal Construction
  This act shall be liberally construed in order to accomplish its purpose and the public policy of this State as set forth in section...
• Section 10:5-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as "Law Against Discrimination." L.1945, c. 169, p. 589, s. 1, eff. April 16, 1945.
• Section 10:5-2 - Police Power, Enactment Deemed Exercise Of
  The enactment hereof shall be deemed an exercise of the police power of the State for the protection of the public safety, health and...
• Section 10:5-2.1 - Other Laws Unaffected
  Nothing contained in this act or in P.L. 1945, c. 169 (C. 10:5-1 et seq.) shall be construed to require or authorize any act...
• Section 10:5-2.2 - Higher Education Exception
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 of P.L. 1938, c. 295 (C. 10:3-1) and section 8 of P.L. 1962, c. 37 (C. 10:5-2.1), an...
• Section 10:5-3 - Findings, Declarations.
  3.The Legislature finds and declares that practices of discrimination against any of its inhabitants, because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, sex,...
• Section 10:5-3.1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Discrimination Based On Pregnancy, Childbirth, Related Medical Conditions.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares: a.That pregnant women are vulnerable to discrimination in the workplace in New Jersey, as indicated in reports that women...
• Section 10:5-4 - Obtaining Employment, Accommodations And Privileges Without Discrimination; Civil Right.
  4.All persons shall have the opportunity to obtain employment, and to obtain all the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of any place of public...
• Section 10:5-4.1 - Construction Of Act.
  2.All of the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement shall be construed to prohibit any unlawful discrimination against any...
• Section 10:5-5 - Definitions Relative To Discrimination.
  5.As used in P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-1 et seq.), unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: a."Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships,...
• Section 10:5-5.1 - Division To Be Known As "Division On Civil Rights"
  The Division against Discrimination shall be known as the "Division on Civil Rights." L.1960, c. 59, p. 491, s. 3, eff. June 21, 1960.
• Section 10:5-6 - Division On Civil Rights Created; Powers.
  6.There is created in the Department of Law and Public Safety a division known as "The Division on Civil Rights" with power to prevent...
• Section 10:5-7 - Composition Of Division; Commission; Membership; Appointment; Term; Vacancies; Compensation
  The said division shall consist of the Attorney General and the commission. The commission shall consist of 7 members; each member shall be appointed...
• Section 10:5-8 - Attorney General's Powers And Duties.
  8.The Attorney General shall: a.Exercise all powers of the division not vested in the commission. b.Administer the work of the division. c.Organize the division...
• Section 10:5-8.1 - Preparation Of Statement By Attorney General.
  6. a. The Attorney General shall prepare a statement notifying landlords that the "Law Against Discrimination," P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-1et seq.), as amended by P.L.2002,...
• Section 10:5-9.1 - Enforcement Of Laws Against Discrimination In Public Housing And Real Property.
  1.The Division on Civil Rights in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall enforce the laws of this State against discrimination in housing...
• Section 10:5-9.2 - Division On Civil Rights Qualified As "Certified Agency."
  13.The provisions of this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1992, c.146 (C.10:5-12.4 et al.), and P.L.2003, c.180, are intended to permit the Division on Civil...
• Section 10:5-10 - Commission's Powers And Duties; Local Commissions.
  9.The commission shall: a.Consult with and advise the Attorney General with respect to the work of the division. b.Survey and study the operations of...
• Section 10:5-11 - Evidence In Obedience To Summons; Immunity Of Witnesses
  No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing records, correspondence, documents or other evidence in obedience to the subpoena of...
• Section 10:5-12 - Unlawful Employment Practices, Discrimination.
  11.It shall be an unlawful employment practice, or, as the case may be, an unlawful discrimination: a.For an employer, because of the race, creed,...
• Section 10:5-12.1 - Reinstatement, Back Pay
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, relief for having been required to retire in violation of the provisions of section 11 of...
• Section 10:5-12.2 - Unlawful Discrimination Against Medicaid Applicants, Recipients Of Public Assistance
  It shall be an unlawful discrimination for any skilled nursing or intermediate care facility which is a Medicaid provider pursuant to P.L.1968, c.413 (C.30:4D-1...
• Section 10:5-12.3 - Report Of Admission Denial
  A person or agency having knowledge that a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility whose Medicaid occupancy level is less than the Statewide occupancy...
• Section 10:5-12.4 - Failure To Use Barrier Free Housing Standards, Unlawful Discrimination.
  11.A failure to design and construct any multi-family dwelling of four units or more in accordance with barrier free standards promulgated by the Commissioner...
• Section 10:5-12.5 - Regulation Of Land Use, Housing, Unlawful Discrimination.
  12. a. It shall be an unlawful discrimination for a municipality, county or other local civil or political subdivision of the State of New...
• Section 10:5-12.6 - Liability Imposed On Employers Who Discharge, Discriminate Against Employee Who Displays The American Flag.
  1.No employer, public or private, shall discharge or discriminate against an employee in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment for displaying...
• Section 10:5-13 - Filing Complaint; Prosecution Of Suit In Superior Court, Jury Trial
  Any person claiming to be aggrieved by an unlawful employment practice or an unlawful discrimination may, personally or by an attorney-at-law, make, sign and...
• Section 10:5-14 - Investigation Of Complaint; Attorney General's Duties.
  13.After the filing of any complaint, the Attorney General shall cause prompt investigation to be made in connection therewith and advise the complainant of...
• Section 10:5-14.1 - Enforcement Of Act; Summary Proceedings
  At any time after the filing of any complaint the Attorney General may proceed against any person in a summary manner in the Superior...
• Section 10:5-14.1a - Penalties; Disposition
  2.Any person who violates any of the provisions of the "Law Against Discrimination," P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-1 et seq.), shall, in addition to any other...
• Section 10:5-14.2 - Counties And Municipalities Over 200,000; Office Of Civil Rights; Creation And Establishment; Officers; Organization; Powers
  Any county, except as hereinafter provided or any municipality with a population of at least 200,000 in a county of the first class, may,...
• Section 10:5-14.3 - Delegation Of Powers By Attorney General; Review Of Findings And Conclusions
  Upon a finding that the public interest may be better served thereby, the Attorney General may delegate to such county or municipal office of...
• Section 10:5-15 - Notice Requiring Respondent To Answer Charges; Place Of Hearing
  In case of failure so to eliminate such practice or discrimination, or in advance thereof if in his judgment circumstances so warrant, the Attorney...
• Section 10:5-16 - Practice And Procedure.
  15.When the director has issued a finding of probable cause, the case in support of the complaint shall be presented before the director by...
• Section 10:5-17 - Findings And Conclusions Of Director; Order.
  16.If, upon all evidence at the hearing, the director shall find that the respondent has engaged in any unlawful employment practice or unlawful discrimination...
• Section 10:5-18 - Rules Of Practice; Limitations
  The Attorney General shall establish rules of practice to govern, expedite and effectuate the foregoing procedure and his own actions thereunder. Any complaint filed...
• Section 10:5-19 - Enforcement Of Orders
  Observance of an order of the director issued pursuant to the provisions of this act including collection or enforcement of damages or penalties may...
• Section 10:5-21 - Appeals
  Any person aggrieved by a final order of the director may take an appeal therefrom to the Superior Court, Appellate Division as an appeal...
• Section 10:5-24 - Transcript Of Hearing
  Any party may require that a transcript of a hearing be prepared at his cost. L.1945, c. 169, p. 598, s. 23. Amended by...
• Section 10:5-25 - Attorney For Division; Compensation
  The Attorney General shall appoint or assign the attorney for the division who may be a deputy attorney general. If said attorney is not...
• Section 10:5-26 - Resisting Or Impeding Performance Of Duties; Violation Of Orders; Punishment
  Any person who shall willfully resist, prevent, impede or interfere with the Attorney General or any representative of the division in the performance of...
• Section 10:5-27 - Construction Of Act; Other Laws Not Affected; Exception; Other Remedies.
  26.The provisions of this act shall be construed fairly and justly with due regard to the interests of all parties. Nothing contained in this...
• Section 10:5-27.1 - Attorney Fees.
  6.In any action or proceeding brought under this act, the prevailing party may be awarded a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the cost,...
• Section 10:5-28 - Partial Invalidity
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act or any amendment or supplement thereto or the application thereof to any person or...
• Section 10:5-29 - Person With A Disability; Accompaniment By Service Or Guide Dog; Use Of Public Facilities; Liabilities.
  1.Any person with a disability accompanied by a service or guide dog trained by a recognized training agency or school is entitled, with his...
• Section 10:5-29.1 - Person With A Disability; Unlawful Employment Practice.
  3.Unless it can be clearly shown that a person's disability would prevent such person from performing a particular job, it is an unlawful employment...
• Section 10:5-29.2 - Housing Accommodations.
  4.A person with a disability is entitled to rent, lease or purchase, as other members of the general public, all housing accommodations offered for...
• Section 10:5-29.3 - Service, Guide Dog Trainer; Access To Public Facilities; Responsibilities.
  5.A service or guide dog trainer, while engaged in the actual training process and activities of service dogs or guide dogs, shall have the...
• Section 10:5-29.4 - Right-of-way For Person Accompanied By Or Instructing A Guide Dog.
  6.A person with a disability accompanied by a guide dog, or a guide dog instructor engaged in instructing a guide dog, shall have the...
• Section 10:5-29.5 - Violations, Misrepresentation, Interference With Disabled Persons, Guide Or Service Dogs; Fine.
  7.Any person who violates the provisions of P.L.1977, c.456 in a manner not otherwise prohibited by P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-1 et seq.), or who fits...
• Section 10:5-29.6 - Rights And Privileges Relative To Service Dogs.
  9.Whenever the law accords rights and privileges to or imposes conditions and restrictions upon blind persons with respect to their use of dogs to...
• Section 10:5-29.7 - Definitions Relative To Access For Certain Working Dogs.
  1.As used in this act: "Housing accommodation" means the same as the term is defined in subsection u. of section 5 of P.L.1945, c.169...
• Section 10:5-29.8 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Service Workers With Working Dog Entitled To Full Access.
  2.Any member of a police, fire, law enforcement or other related emergency service agency, accompanied by a working dog, trained by a recognized training...
• Section 10:5-29.9 - Possessors Of Working Dog, Certain, Entitlement To Housing, Business Accommodations.
  3.A member of a police, fire, law enforcement or other related emergency service agency who possesses a working dog, is entitled to rent, lease...
• Section 10:5-29.10 - Violations; Fine.
  4.Any person who violates a provision of this act shall be subject to a fine of between $100 and $500. L.2006, c.88, s.4.
• Section 10:5-30 - Administration And Enforcement
  The provisions of this act shall be administered and enforced by the Division of Civil Rights in the Department of Law and Public Safety...
• Section 10:5-31 - Definitions.
  1.As used in this act: a."Public works contract" means any contract to be performed for or on behalf of the State or any county...
• Section 10:5-32 - Public Works Contract Not Awarded Without Agreement And Guarantee Of Equal Opportunity.
  2.No public works contract shall be awarded by the State, a county, municipality or other political subdivision of the State, or any agency of...
• Section 10:5-33 - Contents Of Bid Specs, Contract Provisions.
  3.The State or any county or municipality or other political subdivision of the State, or any agency of or authority created by any of...
• Section 10:5-34 - Affirmative Action Program, Submission To State Treasurer; Fee; Approval.
  4.Each prospective bidder on a public works contract or contracts and each subcontract bidder to a prime contract bidder shall formulate and submit to...
• Section 10:5-35 - Failure To Include Affirmative Action Program; Nullity Of Contract; Violations; Fine
  a. Any public works contract including any subcontract awarded thereunder to any contractor which fails to contain the provisions set forth in sections 2...
• Section 10:5-36 - State Treasurer; Enforcement; Powers
  In carrying out his responsibilities under this act, the State Treasurer, in addition to and without limitation of other powers which he may have...
• Section 10:5-37 - Costs Of Project; Inclusion Of Expenses Furthering Equal Employment Opportunities
  Notwithstanding any provision of any State law, ordinance or regulation to the contrary, there may be included in the costs of a project or...
• Section 10:5-38 - Persons Entitled To Bring Enforcement Actions
  Any individual who has been discriminated against in violation of the provisions of this act and any organization which represents or acts to further...
• Section 10:5-39 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Affirmative action program for veterans of the Vietnam era" means a plan guaranteeing to veterans of the Vietnam...
• Section 10:5-40 - Equal Employment Opportunities For Vietnam Era Veterans; Public Works Contracts; Complaint; Investigations
  Each public works contract shall contain appropriate provisions in which contractors, subcontractors, or their assignees shall guarantee an equal employment opportunity to veterans of...
• Section 10:5-41 - Affirmative Action Program For Veterans; Investigations
  The State Treasurer shall prescribe an affirmative action program for veterans of the Vietnam era. The Treasurer shall designate an appropriate official in the...
• Section 10:5-42 - Penalties
  Any person who violates this law or the provisions of a public works contract guaranteeing an equal employment opportunity to veterans shall be subject...
• Section 10:5-43 - Short Title
  1. Sections 1 through 10 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Genetic Privacy Act." L.1996,c.126, s.1.
• Section 10:5-44 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Genetic Information
  2. The Legislature finds and declares: a. The DNA molecule contains information about an individual's probable medical future. This information is written in a...
• Section 10:5-45 - Informed Consent Required To Obtain Genetic Information
  6. No person shall obtain genetic information from an individual, or from an individual's DNA sample, without first obtaining informed consent from the individual...
• Section 10:5-46 - Authorization To Retain Genetic Information
  7. a. No person shall retain an individual's genetic information without first obtaining authorization under the informed consent requirement of section 6 of P.L.1996,...
• Section 10:5-47 - Conditions For Disclosure Of Genetic Information
  8. a. Regardless of the manner of receipt or the source of genetic information, including information received from an individual, a person may not...
• Section 10:5-48 - Notice To Persons Receiving Genetic Testing
  9. a. A person who requires or requests that genetic testing be done or receives records, results or findings of genetic testing shall provide...
• Section 10:5-49 - Violations, Penalties For Unlawful Disclosure Of Genetic Information
  10. a. Any person violating the provisions of sections 6 through 9, inclusive, of P.L.1996, c.126 (C.10:5-45 through C.10:5-48) shall be a disorderly person...
• Section 10:6-1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Civil Rights Act." L.2004,c.143,s.1.
• Section 10:6-2 - Actions Permitted Under The "New Jersey Civil Rights Act."
  2. a. If a person, whether or not acting under color of law, subjects or causes to be subjected any other person to the...

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