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TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 SOURCE: The following is the text of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, as it appears at volume 42 of the United States Code, beginning at section 2000e. Editor’s notes in italics. DEFINITIONS SEC. 2000e. \[Section 701\] For the purposes of this subchapter- (a) The term “person” includes one or more individuals, governments, governmental agencies, political subdivisions, labor unions, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in cases under Title 11 \[originally, bankruptcy \], or receivers. (b) The term “employer” means a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen 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 any department or agency of the District of Columbia subject by statute to procedures of the competitive service (as defined in section 2102 of Title 5 \[United States Code\]), or (2) a bona fide private membership club (other than a labor organization) which is exempt from taxation under section 501(c) of Title 26 \[the Internal Revenue Code of 1986\], except that during the first year after March 24, 1972 \[the date of enactment of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972\], persons having fewer than twenty-five employees (and their agents) shall not be considered employers. (c) The term “employment agency” means any person regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer and includes an agent of such a person. (d) The term “labor organization” means a labor organization engaged in an industry affecting commerce, and any agent of such an organization, and includes any organization of any kind, any agency, or employee representation committee, group, association, or plan so engaged in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours, or other terms or conditions of employment, and any conference, general