Syracuse, N.Y., Local Laws ch. 8 § 8-4

Employment. 1.
It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice:
(a) For an employer or licensing agency, because of the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of any individual, to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from employment such individual or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
(b) For an employment agency to discriminate against any individual because of her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression, in receiving, classifying, disposing or otherwise acting upon applications for its services or in referring an applicant or applicants to an employer or employers.
(c) For a labor organization, because of the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of any individual, to exclude or to expel from its membership such individual or to discriminate in any way against any of its members or against any employer or any individual employed by an employer, because of her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression.
(d) For an employer or employment agency to print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for employment or to make any inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses directly or indirectly, any limitations, specification or discriminations as to sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
(e) For any employer, labor organization or employment agency to discharge, expel or otherwise discriminate against any person because she or he has opposed any practices forbidden under this law or because she or he has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this law.
2. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer, labor organization, employment agency or any joint labor-management committee controlling apprentice training programs:
(a) To deny to or withhold from any person because of her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression, the right to be admitted to or participate in a guidance program, an apprenticeship training program, on-the-job training program, executive training program, or other occupational training or retraining program;
(b) To discriminate against any person in her or his pursuit of such programs or to discriminate against such a person in the terms, conditions or privileges of such programs because of her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression;
(c) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for such programs or to make any inquiry in connection with such program which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination as to sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression, or any intention to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
Public accommodation. 3.
It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement, because of the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of any person, directly or indirectly, to refuse, withhold from or deny to such person any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, including the extension of credit, or, directly or indirectly, to publish, circulate, issue, display, post or mail any written or printed communication, notice or advertisement, to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any such place shall be refused, withheld from or denied to any person on account of her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression or that the patronage or custom thereat of any person by virtue of her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression is unwelcome, objectionable or not acceptable, desired or solicited.
4. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an educational corporation or association which holds itself out to the public to be nonsectarian and exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of article four of the Real Property Tax Law to deny the use of its facilities to any person otherwise qualified, by reason of her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression.
Housing accommodation and commercial space. 5.
It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee, or managing agent of publicly assisted housing accommodations or other person having the right of ownership or possession of or the right to rent or lease such accommodations or to otherwise deal or interact with potential tenants or applicants for tenancy , to the extent not inconsistent with federal or state law:
(a) To refuse to rent or lease or otherwise to deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons such housing accommodations because of that person's source of income or the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons.
(b) To discriminate against any person because of that person's source of income or her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression in the terms, conditions, or privileges of any publicly assisted housing accommodations or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.
(c) To cause to be made any written or oral inquiry or record concerning the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of a person seeking to rent or lease any publicly assisted housing accommodation.
(d) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for the purchase, rental or lease of such housing accommodations or to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of such a housing accommodation which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination based on a lawful source of income or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
(e) To refuse a potential tenant, the ability to obtain, fill out, or submit an application to rent such housing accommodations, to view or examine the interior or exterior of a housing accommodations or to receive information about related facilities or services prior to, or in conjunction with such application, because of that person's source of income, or the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons.
6. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any real estate broker, real estate salesman or employee or agent thereof or any other individual, corporation, partnership or organization for the purpose of including a real estate transaction from which any such person or any of its stockholders or members may benefit financially, to represent that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition with respect to that person's source of income or to the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of the owners or occupants in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located, and to represent, directly or indirectly, that this change will or may result in undesirable consequences in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located, including but not limited to the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or anti-social behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools or other facilities.
7. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee, or managing agent of, or other person having the right to sell, rent or lease a housing accommodation, constructed or to be constructed, or any agent or employee thereof:
(a) To refuse to sell, rent, lease or otherwise to deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons such a housing accommodation because of that person's lawful source of income or the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons.
(b) To discriminate against any person because of that person's lawful source of income or her or his sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, rental or lease of any such housing accommodation or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.
(c) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for the purchase, rental or lease of such housing accommodations or to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of such a housing accommodation which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination as to a lawful source of income or sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
(d) To refuse a potential buyer or tenant the ability to obtain, fill out, or submit an application to rent or purchase such housing accommodations, to view or examine the interior or exterior of a housing accommodations or to receive information about related facilities or services prior to, or in conjunction with such application, because of that person's source of income, or the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons.
The provisions of this subsection seven of this law shall not apply: (1) To the rental of a housing accommodation in a building which contains housing accommodations for not more than two (2) families living independently of each other, if the owner or members of his family reside in one of such housing accommodations, or (2) to the rental of a room or rooms in a housing accommodation, if such rental is by the occupant of the housing accommodation or by the owner of the housing accommodation and she or he or members of her or his family reside in such housing accommodation.
8. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner, lessee, sublessee, or managing agent of, or other person having the right of ownership or possession of or the right to sell, rent or lease, land or commercial space:
(a) To refuse to sell, rent, lease or otherwise deny to or withhold from any person or group of persons such commercial space because of the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons.
(b) To discriminate against any person because of her or his sexual or affectional preference and/or that person's actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, rental or lease of any such land or commercial space; or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.
(c) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for the purchase, rental or lease of such land or commercial space or to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of such land or commercial space which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination as to sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression; or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
9. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any real estate broker, real estate salesman or employee or agent thereof:
(a) To refuse to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation, land or commercial space to any person or group of persons or to refuse to negotiate for the sale, rental or lease, of any housing accommodation, land or commercial space to any person or group of persons because of that person's lawful source of income, or the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons, or to represent that any housing accommodation, land or commercial space is not available for inspection, sale, rental or lease when in fact it is so available, or otherwise to deny or withhold any housing accommodation, land or commercial space or any facilities of any housing accommodation, land or commercial space form any person or group of persons because of the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons.
(b) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application for the purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodation, land or commercial space or to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodation, land or commercial space which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to a lawful source of income, or sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression; or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
(c) To refuse a potential buyer or tenant the ability to obtain, fill out, or submit an application to rent or purchase housing accommodations, to view or examine the interior or exterior of a housing accommodation or to receive information about related facilities or services prior to, or in conjunction with such application, because of that person's source of income, or the sexual or affectional preference or orientation and/or actual or perceived sex, or gender identity or expression of such person or persons.
General. 10.
The provisions of this law shall apply throughout the geographic limits of the City of Syracuse as defined in the City Charter.
11. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any of the acts forbidden under this law, or to attempt to do so.
12. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person engaged in any activity to which this law applies to retaliate or discriminate against any person because she or he has opposed any practices forbidden under this law or because she or he has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this law.
13. Nothing contained in this law shall be construed to bar any religious or denominational institution or organization, or any organization operated for charitable or educational purposes, which is operated, supervised or controlled by or in connection with a religious organization, from limiting employment or sales or rental of housing accommodations or admission to or giving preference to persons of the same religion or denomination or from making such selection as is calculated by such organization to promote the religious principles for which it is established or maintained.