Public Accommodations

Chapter 57 prohibits discrimination or separation because of race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation or disability, in any place of public accommodation in the City of Orlando.

A place of public accommodation refers to the following establishments. This is not an exhaustive list.

• Any inn, hotel, motel or other place which provides lodging to transient guests.
• Any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including those located on the premises of any retail establishment or gasoline station.
• Any bar, lounge, nightclub or other facility principally engaged in selling alcoholic beverages or both food and alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.
• Any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium, convention hall or other place of exhibition or entertainment.
• Any library or education facility supported in part or whole by public funds, public conveyance (taxis, limousines, and buses), barber and beauty shops, hospital, laundry, swimming pool, nursery, kindergarten or day care center.

Exemptions to public accommodation discrimination laws are private clubs not open to the public; religious organizations, associations or societies. Kindergartens, nurseries, day care centers, and, theaters and motion picture houses may limit their use to persons of a particular age group.