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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 39-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="39-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Agency.">“Agency” means any department, authority, office, board, commission, council, committee, or other unit of the City government.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Equity.">“Equity” means closing the gaps in policy, practice and allocation of City resources so that race, gender, religion, sexual orientations, and income do not predict one’s success, while also improving outcomes for all.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Equity assessment.">“Equity assessment” means a systematic process of identifying policies and practices that may be implemented to identify and redress disparate outcomes on the basis of race, gender, or income.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Gender.">“Gender” means actual or perceived sex and includes a person’s gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior, or expression, whether or not that gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior, or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the sex assigned to that person at birth.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-160</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
