Spokane Municipal Code

Title 18 Human Rights

Chapter 18.06 Protections for Persons with Disabilities

Section 18.06.010 Declaration of Policy

1. It is the policy of the City of Spokane to encourage and enable people with disabilities to participate fully in the social and economic life of the City, and to engage in remunerative employment.
    
2. As citizens, people with disabilities have the same rights as persons without disabilities to purchase any service, commodity or article of personal property offered or sold on, or by, any establishment to the public, and the admission of any person to accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges of any place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage or amusement, without acts directly or indirectly causing persons of any particular race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or with any sensory, mental or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, to be treated as not welcome, accepted, desired or solicited.
    
3. People with disabilities are entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges on common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, street cars, boats and all other public conveyances, as well as in hotels, lodging places, places of public resort, accommodation, assemblage or amusement, and all other places to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.

Date Passed: Monday, March 27, 2017

Effective Date: Saturday, May 13, 2017

ORD C35485 Section 2