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SECTION 291
Equality of opportunity a civil right
Executive (EXC) CHAPTER 18, ARTICLE 15
§ 291. Equality of opportunity a civil right.

1. The opportunity to obtain employment without discrimination because
of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, military status, sex, marital status, or
disability, is hereby recognized as and declared to be a civil right.

2. The opportunity to obtain education, the use of places of public
accommodation and the ownership, use and occupancy of housing
accommodations and commercial space without discrimination because of
age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, military status, sex, marital status, or
disability, as specified in section two hundred ninety-six of this
article, is hereby recognized as and declared to be a civil right.

3. The opportunity to obtain medical treatment of an infant
prematurely born alive in the course of an abortion shall be the same as
the rights of an infant born spontaneously.