N.Y. Civil Rights Law § 44-a: Protecting civil and public rights

§ 44-a. Protecting civil and public rights. A person who: 1.

Excludes a citizen of this state, by reason of race, color, creed,

national origin or previous condition of servitude, from any public

employment or employment in any capacity in industries engaged in

defense contracts or from the equal enjoyment of any accommodation,

facility or privilege furnished by innkeepers or common carriers, or by

owners, managers or lessees of theatres or other places of amusement, or

by teachers and officers of common schools and public institutions of

learning; or,

2. Excludes a citizen of this state by reason of race, color, national

origin or previous condition of servitude from the equal enjoyment of

any accommodation, facility or privilege furnished by a cemetery

association or associations; or,

3. Denies or aids or incites another to deny to any other person

because of race, creed, color or national origin public employment or

employment in any capacity in industries engaged in war contracts or the

full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and

privileges of any hotel, inn, tavern, restaurant, public conveyance on

land or water, theatre or other place of public resort or amusement;

Is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than fifty

dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.