Fla. Stat. § 760.02 — Florida Code / Title XLIV / Chapter 760 / Part I / Section 760.02
760.02 Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of ss. 760.01-760.11 and 509.092, the term:

(1) “Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992” means ss. 760.01-760.11 and 509.092.

(2) “Commission” means the Florida Commission on Human Relations created by s. 760.03.

(3) “Commissioner” or “member” means a member of the commission.

(4) “Discriminatory practice” means any practice made unlawful by the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992.

(5) “National origin” includes ancestry.

(6) “Person” includes an individual, association, corporation, joint apprenticeship committee, joint-stock company, labor union, legal representative, mutual company, partnership, receiver, trust, trustee in bankruptcy, or unincorporated organization; any other legal or commercial entity; the state; or any governmental entity or agency.

(7) “Employer” means any person employing 15 or more employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person.

(8) “Employment agency” means any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer, and includes an agent of such a person.

(9) “Labor organization” means any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or protection in connection with employment.

(10) “Aggrieved person” means any person who files a complaint with the Human Relations Commission.

(11) “Public accommodations” means places of public accommodation, lodgings, facilities principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, gasoline stations, places of exhibition or entertainment, and other covered establishments. Each of the following establishments which serves the public is a place of public accommodation within the meaning of this section: (a) Any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than four rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his or her residence. (b) Any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the premises of any retail establishment, or any gasoline station. (c) Any motion picture theater, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium, or other place of exhibition or entertainment. (d) Any establishment which is physically located within the premises of any establishment otherwise covered by this subsection, or within the premises of which is physically located any such covered establishment, and which holds itself out as serving patrons of such covered establishment.

History: s. 2, ch. 69-287; s. 2, ch. 72-48; s. 2, ch. 77-341; s. 3, ch. 79-400; s. 2, ch. 92-177; s. 4, ch. 92-282; s. 4, ch. 2003-396.