(a) This division applies to every public accommodation of any kind in the County whose facilities, accommodations, services, commodities, or use are offered to or enjoyed by the general public either with or without charge, such as:
(1) restaurants, soda fountains, and other eating or drinking places, and all places where food is sold for consumption either on or off the premises;
(2) inns, hotels, and motels, whether serving temporary or permanent patrons;
(3) retail stores and service establishments;
(4) hospitals and clinics;
(5) motion picture, stage, and other theaters and music, concert, or meeting halls;
(6) circuses, exhibitions, skating rinks, sports arenas and fields, amusement or recreation parks, picnic grounds, fairs, bowling alleys, golf courses, gymnasiums, shooting galleries, billiard and pool rooms, and swimming pools;
(7) public conveyances, such as automobiles, buses, taxicabs, trolleys, trains, limousines, boats, airplanes, and bicycles;
(8) utilities, such as water and sewer service, electricity, telephone, and cable television;
(9) streets, roads, sidewalks, other public rights-of-way, parking lots or garages, marinas, airports, and hangars; and
(10) places of public assembly and entertainment of every kind.
(b) In this Chapter, “public accommodation” includes any service, program, or activity offered to or used by the general public.
(c) This division does not apply to accommodations that are distinctly private or personal. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 77-9; Ord. No. 6-43; 1969 L.M.C., ch. 33, § 1; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 21, § 1; 2001 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1;
, § 1.)
Editor’s note—Section 27-10, formerly § 27-8, was renumbered, amended and retitled pursuant to 2001 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1.
Former Section 27-10, relating to penalties, derived from Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 77-11; Ord. No. 6-57; 1969 L.M.C., ch. 33, § 1; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 21, § 1; 1977 L.M.C., ch. 30, § 3, was repealed by 2001 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 1.
