INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. VI, Laws     (Compiled from February 10, 1939 to January 13, 1971)

Washington : Government Printing Office

PUBLIC LAWS OF THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 1964
Public Law 88-293 | Public Law 88-301 | Public Law 88-302 | Public Law 88-303 | Public Law 88-304  | Public Law 88-317 | Public Law 88-352 | Public Law 88-356 | Public Law 88-412 | Public Law 88-413 | Public Law 88-418  | Public Law 88-419 | Public Law 88-421  | Public Law 88-423  | Public Law 88-426  | Public Law 88-429  | Public Law 88-452  | Public Law 88-453  | Public Law 88-456  | Public Law 88-457  | Public Law 88-461  | Public Law 88-462 | Public Law 88-463  | Public Law 88-464  | Public Law 88-465  | Public Law 88-474  | Public Law 88-483  | Public Law 88-506  | Public Law 88-533  | Public Law 88-540  | Public Law 88-551  | Public Law 88-559  | Public Law 88-560  | Public Law 88-606  | Public Law 88-632  | Public Law 88-635  | Public Law 88-639  | Public Law 88-640  | Public Law 88-658  | Public Law 88-663

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Public Law 88-352
July 2, 1964 | [H.R. 7152] 78 Stat. 241

AN ACT
To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes.
Section 701 | 703

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

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TITLE VII—EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 701.

For the purposes of this title—

(b) The term "employer" means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has twenty-five or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and any agent of such a person, but such term does not include (1) the United States, a corporation wholly owned by the Government of the United States, an Indian tribe, or a State or political subdivision thereof, (2) a bona fide private membership club (other than a labor organization) which is exempt from taxation under section 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954: Provided, That during the first year after the effective date prescribed in subsection (a) of section 716, persons having fewer than one hundred employees (and their agents) shall not be considered employers, and, during the second year after such date, persons having fewer than seventy-five employees (and their agents) shall not be considered employers, and, during the third year after such date, persons having fewer than fifty employees (and their agents) shall not be considered employers: Provided further, That it shall be the policy of the United States to insure equal employment opportunities for Federal employees without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin and the President shall utilize his existing authority to effectuate this policy.

DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN

SEC. 703.

(i) Nothing contained in this title shall apply to any business or enterprise on or near an Indian reservation with respect to any publicly announced employment practice of such business or enterprise under which a preferential treatment is given to any individual because he is an Indian living on or near a reservation.

Approved, July 2, 1964.

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