[Ord. No. 4999, 8-2-2021]
For the purpose of this Chapter, the following terms, phrases,
words, and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein
unless the context otherwise dictates:
Includes any person who is attempting to provide housing
for himself and/or his family in the City of Dexter, Missouri.
Distinctions in treatment because of race, color, religion,
sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin of any person.
Includes any individual, firm, partnership, or corporation.
A.
It
shall be an unlawful housing practice:
1.
To refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona fide offer,
to refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of, to deny or otherwise
make unavailable a dwelling to any person because of race, color,
religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability or familial status.
2.
To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions or privileges
of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or
facilities in connection therewith, because of race, color, religion,
national origin, ancestry, sex, disability or familial status.
3.
To make, print or publish or cause to be made, printed or published
any notice, statement or advertisement with respect to the sale or
rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation or
discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry,
sex, disability or familial status, or an intention to make any such
preference, limitation or discrimination.
4.
To represent to any person because of race, color, religion, national
origin, ancestry, sex, disability or familial status that any dwelling
is not available for inspection, sale or rental when such dwelling
is in fact so available.
5.
To induce or attempt to induce any person to sell or rent any dwelling
by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry into the
neighborhood of a person or persons of a particular race, color, religion,
national origin, ancestry, sex, disability or familial status.
6.
To discriminate in the sale or rental, or to otherwise make unavailable
or deny, a dwelling to any buyer or renter because of a disability
of:
7.
To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions or privileges
of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or
facilities in connection with such dwelling, because of a disability
of:
B.
1.
A refusal to permit, at the expense of the person with the disability,
reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be occupied
by such person if such modifications may be necessary to afford such
person full enjoyment of the premises, except that, in the case of
a rental, the landlord may, where it is reasonable to do so, condition
permission for a modification on the renter's agreeing to restore
the interior of the premises to the condition that existed before
the modification, reasonable wear and tear excepted.
2.
A refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices
or services when such accommodations may be necessary to afford such
person equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling.
3.
In connection with the design and construction of covered multi-family
dwellings for first (1st) occupancy after March 13, 1991, a failure
to design and construct those dwellings in such a manner that:
a.
The public use and common use portions of such dwellings are readily
accessible to and usable by persons with a disability.
b.
All the doors designed to allow passage into and within all premises
within such dwellings are sufficiently wide to allow passage by persons
with a disability in wheelchairs.
c.
All premises within such dwellings contain the following features
of adaptive design:
(1)
An accessible route into and through the dwelling;
(2)
Light switches, electrical outlets, thermostats and other environmental
controls in accessible locations;
(3)
Reinforcements in bathroom walls to allow later installation
of grab bars; and
(4)
Usable kitchens and bathrooms such that an individual in a wheelchair
can maneuver about the space.
D.
Compliance with the appropriate requirements of the American National Standard for Buildings and Facilities providing accessibility and usability for people with physically disabilities, commonly cited as "ANSI A117.1", suffices to satisfy the requirements of Subsection (B)(3)(a) of this Section.
It shall be unlawful for any bank, building and loan association,
insurance company or other corporation, association, firm or enterprise
whose business consists in whole or in part in the making of commercial
real estate loans to deny a loan or other financial assistance because
of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability
or familial status to a person applying therefor for the purpose of
purchasing, construction, improving, repairing or maintaining a dwelling,
or to discriminate against him/her in fixing of the amount, interest
rate, duration or other terms or conditions of such loan or other
financial assistance because of the race, color, religion, national
origin, ancestry, sex, disability or familial status of such person
or of any person associated with him/her in connection with such loan
or other financial assistance, or of the present or prospective owners,
lessees, tenants or occupants of the dwellings in relation to which
such loan or other financial assistance is to be made or given.
It shall be unlawful to deny any person access to or membership
or participation in any multiple listing service, real estate brokers'
organization or other service organization or facility relating to
the business of selling or renting dwellings on account of race, color,
religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, disability or familial status.
A.
All
persons within the City of Dexter are free and equal and shall be
entitled to the full and equal use and enjoyment within this State
of any place of public accommodation, as hereinafter defined, without
discrimination or segregation on the grounds of race, color, religion,
national origin, sex, ancestry or disability.
B.
It
is an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person, directly or
indirectly, to refuse, withhold from or deny any other person or to
attempt to refuse, withhold from or deny any other person any of the
accommodations, advantages, facilities, services or privileges made
available in any place of public accommodation, as defined in Section
213.010, RSMo., and this Section, or to segregate or discriminate
against any such person in the use thereof on the grounds of race,
color, religion, national origin, sex, ancestry or disability.
C.
The
provisions of this Section shall not apply to a private club, a place
of accommodation owned by or operated on behalf of a religious corporation,
association or society or other establishment which is not in fact
open to the public, unless the facilities of such establishments are
made available to the customers or patrons of a place of public accommodation
as defined in Section 213.010, RSMo., and this Section.
A.
It
shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice:
1.
To aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the commission of acts prohibited
under this Chapter or to attempt to do so;
2.
To retaliate or discriminate in any manner against any other person
because such person has opposed any practice prohibited by this Chapter
or because such person has filed a complaint, testified, assisted
or participated in any manner in any investigation, proceeding or
hearing conducted pursuant to this Chapter;
3.
For the City to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion,
national origin, sex, ancestry, age, as it relates to employment,
disability or familial status as it relates to housing; or
4.
To discriminate in any manner against any other person because of
such person's association with any person protected by this Chapter.
A.
B.
1.
Requires that a dwelling be made available to an individual whose
tenancy would constitute a direct threat to the health or safety of
other individuals or whose tenancy would result in substantial physical
damage to the property of others.
2.
Limits the applicability of any reasonable local restriction regarding
the maximum number of occupants permitted to occupy a dwelling, nor
does any provision of said Sections regarding familial status apply
with respect to housing for older persons.
3.
Shall prohibit conduct against a person because such person has been
convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction of the illegal manufacture
or distribution of a controlled substance, as defined by Section 195.010,
RSMo.
C.
Nothing
in this Chapter shall prohibit a religious organization, association
or society or any non-profit institution or organization operated,
supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization,
association or society from limiting the sale, rental or occupancy
of dwellings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial
purpose to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference
to such persons, unless membership in such religion is restricted
on account of race, color or national origin. Nor shall anything in
this Chapter prohibit a private club not in fact open to the public,
which as an incident to its primary purpose or purposes provides lodging
which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, from
limiting the rental or occupancy of such lodging to its members or
from giving preference to its members.
D.
Nothing in this Chapter, other than the prohibitions against discriminatory advertising in Subsection (A)(3) of Section 220.010, shall apply to:
1.
The sale or rental of any single-family house by a private individual
owner, provided the following conditions are met:
a.
The private individual owner does not own or have any interest in
more than three (3) single-family houses at any one time; and
b.
The house is sold or rented without the use of a real estate broker,
agent or salesperson or the facilities of any person in the business
of selling or renting dwellings and without publication, posting or
mailing of any advertisement. If the owner selling the house does
not reside in it at the time of the sale or was not the most recent
resident of the house prior to such sale, the exemption in this Section
applies to only one (1) such sale in any twenty-four (24) month period.
2.
Rooms or units in dwellings containing living quarters occupied or
intended to be occupied by no more than four (4) families living independently
of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupies one (1)
of such living quarters as his/her residence.
[Ord. No. 4999, 8-2-2021]
A.
There is hereby created a Fair Housing Committee whose membership
shall consist of five (5) members, who shall be appointed by the Mayor
of the City with the approval of the Board of Aldermen.
B.
Every complaint of a violation of this Chapter shall be referred
to the Fair Housing Committee. The Fair Housing Committee shall forthwith
notify the persons against whom the complaint is made. The identity
of the aggrieved person shall be made known to the person against
whom the complaint is made at that time. If the Fair Housing Committee,
after investigation, finds there is no merit to the complaint, the
same shall be dismissed. If the Fair Housing Committee finds that
there is merit in the complaint, in its opinion, then and in that
event, the Fair Housing Committee will endeavor to eliminate the alleged
discriminatory practice by conference and conciliation.
C.
If the Fair Housing Committee is unable to eliminate the alleged
discriminatory practice by conference and conciliation, then and in
that event, the Fair Housing Committee shall forward said complaint
to the City Attorney for handling. The final determination of whether
to prosecute in Municipal Court on said complaint shall be left to
the City Attorney.
D.
Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in such manner as to limit
administrative enforcement mechanisms and recourse against alleged
discriminatory housing practices through the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, as specified under Section 810 of the Fair
Housing Act as amended effective March 12, 1989, or through the Missouri
Commission on Human Rights, as specified in applicable State statutes.
[Ord. No. 4999, 8-2-2021]
A.
Any person convicted in Municipal Court of a violation of this Chapter
shall be punished by a fine of (not more than) five hundred dollars
($500.00), or by confinement in the City jail for (not more than)
ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
B.
The City Attorney, instead of filing a complaint in Municipal Court
of said City, may, as an alternative remedy, seek to have the alleged
discriminatory practices abated by an action for an injunction to
be maintained in the Stoddard County Circuit Court of the State of
Missouri.
[Ord. No. 4999, 8-2-2021]
If any Section, Subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, or
phrase of these standards shall be declared invalid for any reason
whatsoever, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions
of this Chapter which shall continue in full force and effect. To
this end, the provisions of this Chapter are hereby declared to be
severable.
[Ord. No. 4999, 8-2-2021]
This Chapter shall not affect violations of any other ordinance,
code, or regulation of the City of Dexter, existing prior to the effective
date hereof. Any such violations shall be governed and shall continue
to be punishable to the full extent of the law under the provisions
of those ordinances, codes, or regulations in effect at the time the
violation was committed.
