Title 19 — Personal Relations

Every person has, subject to the qualifications and restrictions provided by law, the right of protection from bodily restraint or harm, from personal insult, from defamation, and from injury to his personal relations. SOURCE: CC '43.

Defamation is effected by: (a) Libel; (b) Slander. SOURCE: CC '44.

Libel is a false and unprivileged publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye, which exposes any COL120106 person to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obloquy, or which causes him to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to in…

Slander is a false and unprivileged publication other than libel, which: (a) Charges any person with crime, or with having been informed against, convicted, or punished for crime; (b) Imputes in him the present existence of an infectious, contagious, or loathsome disease; (c) Ten…

A privileged publication is one made: (a) In the proper discharge of an official duty. (b) In any (1) legislative or (2) judicial proceedings, or (3) in any other official proceeding authorized by law: Provided, that an allegation or averment contained in any pleading or affidavi…

In the cases provided for in Subdivisions (c), (d), and (e) of the preceding Section, malice is not inferred from the communication or publi- cation. SOURCE: CC '48.

The rights of personal relations forbid: (a) The abduction of a husband from his wife, or of a parent from his child. (b) The abduction or enticement of a wife from her husband, or a child from a parent, or from a guardian entitled to its custody. (c) The seduction of a wife, dau…

Any necessary force may be used to protect from wrongful injury the person or property of oneself, or of a wife, husband, child, parent, or other relative, or member of one's family, or of a ward, servant, master, or guest. COL120106 SOURCE: CC '50.

Any person within the jurisdiction of this territory who conducts himself in a proper and lawful manner is entitled to the full and equal ac- commodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, restaurants, hotels, eating houses, places where alcoholic beverages, ice cre…

Whoever denies to any person except for reasons applicable alike to every race or religion, the full accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges enumerated in § 2109 of this Title, or who aids or incites such denial, or whoever makes any discrimination, distinction, or…

It is unlawful for any corporation, person or association, or the proprietor, lessee, or the agents of either, of any opera house, theater, melodeon, museum, circus, caravan, racecourse, fair or other place of public amusement or entertainment, to refuse admittance to any person …

Any person who is refused admission to any place of amusement contrary to the provisions of the last preceding Section, is entitled to recover from the proprietor, lessee, or their agents, or from any such person, corporation, or association, or the directors thereof, his actual …

Any person who violates '§ 2110 or 2111 of this Chapter shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor and any type of business license held by him authorizing the operation of the premises with respect to which the violation of '§ 2110 or 2111 has occurred, shall be subject to suspensio…

Blind persons, visually handicapped persons, and other physically disabled persons shall have the same right as the able-bodied to the full and free use of the streets, highways, sidewalks, walkways, public buildings, public facilities, and other public places. SOURCE: CC '54.2 e…

(a) Blind persons, visually handicapped persons, and other physically disabled persons shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, …

Every totally or partially blind person shall have the right to be accompanied by a guide dog, especially trained for the purpose, in any of the places specified in § 2115 without being required to pay extra charge for the guide dog; provided he shall be liable for any damage don…

Any person or persons, firm or corporation who denies or interferes with admittance to or enjoyment of the public facilities as specified in '§ 2114 and 2115 or otherwise interferes with the rights of a totally or partially blind person or other disabled person under '§ 2114, 211…

COL120106 A totally or partially blind pedestrian shall have all of the rights and privileges conferred by law upon other person in any of the places, accommodations or conveyances specified in '§ 2114 and 2115 notwithstanding the fact that such person is not carrying a predomina…

As used in this chapter, blind, totally blind, visually handicapped, and partially blind mean having central visual acuity not to exceed 20/200 in the better eye, with corrected lenses, as measured by the Snellen test, or visual acuity greater than 20/200, but with a limitation i…