It is hereby found that discrimination in housing
adversely affects the continued development, renewal, growth and progress
of the people of the City and of the City itself and that such discrimination
is injurious to the public health, safety and general welfare of the
City and the people thereof.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meaning indicated:
DISCRIMINATE and DISCRIMINATION
Any difference in treatment of individuals or groups in the
sale, lease, rental or financing of housing units, real estate or
housing accommodations because of age; race; height; weight; religion,
or lack thereof; disability; color; national or sectional origin;
sex; familial status; sexual orientation; gender identity; or that
of their friends or associates.
[Amended 9-20-2021 by Ord. No. 21-008]
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
Any person regularly engaged in the business of lending money
or guaranteeing loans on real property.
OWNER
The lessee, lessor, sublessee, sublessor, assignee, assignor,
managing agent or other person having the right of ownership or possession
or the right to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation or any
part thereof.
PERSON
An association, partnership or corporation, as well as a
natural person. "Person," as applied to partnerships, means the partnership
and the partners thereof, and, as applied to corporations, means the
corporation and the officers thereof.
REAL ESTATE BROKER AND AGENT
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation
who or which, for a fee or other valuable consideration, sells, purchases,
exchanges, rents or negotiates or attempts to negotiate the sale,
purchase, exchange or rental of real property, or holds himself or
herself out as licensed in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging
or renting the real property of another, or collects rental for the
use of the real property of another.
TRANSFER
To sell, rent, lease, sublease or assign real property.
[Amended 9-20-2021 by Ord. No. 21-008]
No owner of real property, lessee, lessor, sublessee,
sublessor, real estate broker or salesman, lender, financial institution,
advertiser or agent of any of the foregoing shall discriminate against
any person because of his or her age; race; height; weight; religion,
or lack thereof; disability; color; national or sectional origin;
sex; familial status; sexual orientation; gender identity; or that
of their friends or associates, in regards to the sale, rental of
or dealings concerning real property located in the City.