Legislation
SECTION 239-R
General obligations
General Municipal (GMU) CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 12-D
§ 239-r. General obligations. A commission on human rights created
under the provisions of section two hundred thirty-nine-o of this
article shall discharge the following obligations. (a) To receive
complaints of alleged discrimination because of an individual's age,
race, creed, color or national origin, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, military status, marital status, sex,
disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status,
marital status or domestic violence victim status, to seek the active
assistance of the division of human rights in the solution of complaints
which fall within the jurisdiction of the division and to prepare its
own plans in the case of other complaints with a view to reducing and
eliminating such alleged discrimination through the process of
conference, conciliation and persuasion.
(b) To hold conferences, and other public meetings in the interest of
the constructive resolution of age, race, creed, color, national origin,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex,
disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status,
marital status and domestic violence victim status group tensions and
the prejudice and discrimination occasioned thereby.
(c) To issue such publications and reports of investigation as in its
judgment will tend to effectuate the purposes of this article.
(d) To enlist the cooperation and participation of the various racial,
religious and nationality groups, community organizations, industry and
labor organizations media or mass communication, fraternal and
benevolent associations, and other groups in an educational campaign
devoted to fostering among the diverse groups of the community mutual
esteem, justice and equity and opening new opportunities into all phases
of community life for all individuals.
(e) To encourage and stimulate agencies under the jurisdiction of the
governing board which created the commission to take such action as will
fulfill the purposes of this article.
(f) To submit an annual report to the governing board or boards and to
furnish a copy thereof to the division of human rights.
under the provisions of section two hundred thirty-nine-o of this
article shall discharge the following obligations. (a) To receive
complaints of alleged discrimination because of an individual's age,
race, creed, color or national origin, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, military status, marital status, sex,
disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status,
marital status or domestic violence victim status, to seek the active
assistance of the division of human rights in the solution of complaints
which fall within the jurisdiction of the division and to prepare its
own plans in the case of other complaints with a view to reducing and
eliminating such alleged discrimination through the process of
conference, conciliation and persuasion.
(b) To hold conferences, and other public meetings in the interest of
the constructive resolution of age, race, creed, color, national origin,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex,
disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status,
marital status and domestic violence victim status group tensions and
the prejudice and discrimination occasioned thereby.
(c) To issue such publications and reports of investigation as in its
judgment will tend to effectuate the purposes of this article.
(d) To enlist the cooperation and participation of the various racial,
religious and nationality groups, community organizations, industry and
labor organizations media or mass communication, fraternal and
benevolent associations, and other groups in an educational campaign
devoted to fostering among the diverse groups of the community mutual
esteem, justice and equity and opening new opportunities into all phases
of community life for all individuals.
(e) To encourage and stimulate agencies under the jurisdiction of the
governing board which created the commission to take such action as will
fulfill the purposes of this article.
(f) To submit an annual report to the governing board or boards and to
furnish a copy thereof to the division of human rights.