Definitions.
Denver Revised Municipal Code § 28-92
in effectSec. 28-92. - Definitions.
The following words and terms when used in this article shall have the following meanings:
(a) Age: A chronological age of at least forty (40) years.
(b) Agency: The agency for human rights and community partnerships.
(c) Director: The agency's duly appointed executive director.
(d) Disability: Has the same meaning as set forth in the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," 42 U.S.C. sec. 1201 et seq., and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
(e) Educational institution: Any private educational institution, including an academy, college, elementary or secondary school, extension course, kindergarten, nursery, school system or university and a business, nursing, professional, secretarial, technical or vocational school and includes an agent of an educational institution.
(f) Employee: Any individual employed by or applying for employment with an employer.
(g) Employer: Any person, excluding governmental entities and political subdivisions but including any agent of such entity or subdivision where the agency relationship is created by a written contract, engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has ten (10) or more employees for each working day in each of ten (10) or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year; the term shall also mean any agent of such a person.
(h) Employment agency: Any person regularly undertaking or attempting with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person.
(i) Gender. The attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person's sex assigned at birth. One's gender may be man, woman, genderqueer, androgynous, or other. Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations is referred to as gender-normative; behavior that is viewed as incompatible with cultural expectations is gender non-conformity.
(j) Gender expression: A person's expression of gender identity through appearance and behavior including how an individual believes that the individual is perceived by others.
(k) Gender identity: A person's sense of oneself as a man, woman, or something else. When a person's gender identity or gender expression and sex assigned at birth are not congruent, the individual may identify along the transgender spectrum.
(l) Labor organization: Any organization, agency, employee representation committee, group, association or plan in which employees participate directly or indirectly and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers or any agent thereof concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours or other terms, conditions or privileges of employment and any conference, general committee, joint or system board or joint council which is subordinate to a national or international labor organization.
(m) Marital status: The state of being married, single, divorced, separated or widowed and the usual conditions associated therewith, including parenthood.
(n) Military status: Being or having been in the service of the military.
(o) Place of public accommodation:
(1) As specified in the Denver Zoning Code: All lodging accommodations including without limitation bed and breakfast lodging, extended stay hotels, hotels, hostels, motels, single room occupancy (SRO) hotels, rooming or boarding houses; short-term rentals including without limitation vacation rentals and other short-term rental places or establishments; eating and drinking establishments; shops, stores, and other kinds of business establishments dealing with goods or services of any kind; hospitals and group living facilities including assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospices, and residences for older adults; shelters; recreational facilities, public parks; theaters of all kinds, and any establishments licensed under chapter 7 (Amusements) of this Code.
(2) Any establishment licensed under the Colorado Liquor Code or the Colorado Beer Code; all banks, credit information services and all other financial institutions; insurance companies and establishments of insurance brokers; clinics, dental or medical; clubs and lodges; bathhouses and swimming pools; commercial or public garages, public transportation as well as the stations or terminals thereof; any establishment offering travel or tour services; public areas and public elevators of buildings and structures, any place of business, services, or other kinds of establishments providing health and welfare services in accordance with section 28-97; and any place of business, services, or other kinds of establishments engaged in or offering sales, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations to the public that receives or is otherwise supported by money raised by taxation or public borrowing.
(p) Protective hairstyle: A hair texture, hair type, or hairstyle commonly or historically associated with one's race, including, but not limited to, braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, bantu knots, afros, and headwraps.
(q) Real estate broker or salesperson: Any person licensed as such in accordance with the provisions of the Colorado Real Estate Commission.
(r) Religious entity: A church, synagogue, mosque, temple, congregation, or other place that is principally used for religious purposes.
(s) Religious organization: A religious corporation, religious institution, religious society, or other organization or association that is not organized for private profit, not supported in whole or in part by money raised by taxation or public borrowing, controlled by or operated in connection with a religious entity, and engages in the study or advancement of religion or engages in the works of education, benevolence, charity, or missions.
(t) Sexual orientation: A component of a person's identity that includes sexual and emotional attraction to another person and the behavior or social affiliation that may result from this attraction. A person may be attracted to men, women, both, neither, or to people who are genderqueer, androgynous, or have other gender identities. Individuals may identify as lesbian, gay, heterosexual, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or asexual, among others.
(u) Source of income: Any lawful, verifiable source of income or housing assistance paid to or on behalf of a renter or buyer including, but not limited, to monies from any occupation or activity, from any contract, agreement, loan or settlement, from any court-ordered payments such as child support, from payments received as gifts, bequests, annuities or life insurance policies, or from federal, state or local payments, including disability benefits and housing choice vouchers or any other rent subsidy or rent assistance program and related program requirements.
(v) Transaction in real property: Exhibiting, listing, advertising, negotiating, agreeing to transfer or transferring, whether by sale, lease, sublease, rent, assignment or other agreement, any interest in real property or improvements thereon.
(Ord. No. 623-90, § 2, 10-15-90; Ord. No. 934-01, § 2, 11-5-01; Ord. No. 788-18, § 2, 8-6-18; Ord. No. 29-20, § 2, 1-27-20; Ord. No. 773-21, § 3, 8-2-21)
Source: City and County of Denver, Revised Municipal Code and Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/co/denver/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIREMUCO_CH28HURI_ARTIVPRDIEMHOCOSPPUACEDINHEWESE_S28-92DEFetched: 10/27/2026