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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="20-303" title_number="20" title_name="Human Relations" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Discrimination in Places of Public Accommodation">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>to a private club or other establishment that is not open to the public, except to the extent that the facilities of the private club or other establishment are made available to the customers or patrons of an establishment within the scope of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>with respect to sex discrimination, to a facility that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>uniquely private and personal in nature; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>designed to accommodate only a particular sex; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>to an establishment providing lodging to transient guests located within a building that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is occupied by the proprietor of the establishment as the proprietor’s residence.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>In this subsection the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Equivalent private space” means a space that is functionally equivalent to the space made available to users of a private facility.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Private facility” means a facility:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>that is designed to accommodate only a particular sex;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>that is designed to be used simultaneously by more than one user of the same sex; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>in which it is customary to disrobe in view of other users of the facility.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, this subtitle applies, with respect to gender identity, to all facilities in a place of public accommodation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>This subtitle does not apply, with respect to gender identity, to a private facility, if the place of public accommodation in which the private facility is located makes available, for the use of persons whose gender identity is different from their assigned sex at birth, an equivalent private space.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
