Whether the Court will find that a law prohibiting Mrs. Murphy from discriminating in the rental of her rooms or the sale of her canned goods is unconstitutional because it is a police regulation, relating exclusively to the internal trade of the States, as in United States v. Dewitt, 9 Wall. 41 (1869), or because it is intended to embrace commerce between citizens of the same State, as in the Trade Mark cases, 100 U.S. 82 (1879), or find the law constitutional after weighing not just the quantitative effect on interstate commerce of Mrs. Murphy's act but also "the fact that the immediate situation is representative of many others throughout the country, the total incidence of which if left unchecked may well become far reaching in its harm to commerce," as it said should be done in the Polish Alliance case (supra, p. 24), is an appropriate judgment for us to make. The following is a compilation as of June 26, 1963 of state statutes which either (1) expressly prohibit discrimination on account of race or color in places of public accommodations or (2) generally declare the right of all citizens to the full enjoyment of public accommodations. Providing that all persons are entitled to the free and equal enjoyment of accommodations, amusements, conveyances, and other business establishments; amending Secs. 20-1-3 and 20-1-4, ACLA 1949, as amended by Ch. 21, SLA 1949; and providing for an effective date. (H.B. 8) Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Alaska: Section 1. Sec. 20-1-3, ACLA 1949, is amended to read: Sec. 20-1-3. Persons Entitled to Full and Equal Accommodations, Facilities, and Privileges. All persons within the jurisdiction of the State of Alaska shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of public inns, restaurants, eating houses, hotels, motels, soda fountains, soft drink parlors, taverns, roadhouses, trailer parks, resorts, camp grounds, barber shops, beauty parlors, bathrooms, resthouses, theatres, swimming pools, skating rinks, golf courses, cafes, ice cream parlors, transportation companies, and all conveyances, housing accommodations, and all other public amusement and business establishments, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons; and any denial of the use of the foregoing facilities by reason of race, creed, or color of the applicant therefore shall be a violation of this section. Public amusement and business establishments within the meaning of this section shall include any establishment which caters or offers its services or goods to the general public, including but not limited to public housing and all forms of publicly assisted housing, and any housing accommodation offered for sale, rent, or lease. Sec. 2. Sec. 20-1-4, ACLA 1949, as amended by Ch. 21, SLA 1949, is amended to read: Sec. 20-1-4. Violation as Misdemeanor: Punishment. Any person who shall violate or aid or incite a violation of said full and equal enjoyment or any person who shall display any printed or written sign indicating a discrimination on racial grounds of said full and equal enjoyment shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con |