[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Mendota.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
In furthering the policy of the State of Illinois as expressed in
its Constitution and other laws; in order that the safety and general
welfare, peace and health of all the inhabitants of the Village may
be ensured, it is hereby declared the policy of the City of Mendota,
Illinois, to assure equal opportunity to all residents, regardless
of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, creed,
or physical or mental handicap, to live in decent, sanitary, healthful,
standard living quarters.
B.
It is the policy of the City of Mendota that no owner, lessee, sublessee,
assignee, managing agent, or other person, firm or corporation having
the right to sell, rent, lease (or otherwise control) any housing
accommodation and/or real property within the City, or any agent of
these, shall refuse to sell, rent, lease, or otherwise deny to or
withhold from any person or group of persons such housing accommodations
and/or real property because of race, color, religion, national origin
or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or mental handicap of such person
or persons or discriminate against any person or persons because of
race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, creed or
physical or mental handicap in the conditions, terms, privileges of
the sale, rental or lease of any housing accommodation and/or real
property or in the furnishing of facilities and/or services in connection
therewith.
C.
Relocation shall be carried out in a manner that will promote maximum
choice within the community's total housing supply; lessen racial,
ethnic, and economic concentrations; and facilitate desegregation
and racially inclusive patterns of occupancy and use of public and
private facilities.
Unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context,
the following terms as used in this chapter shall have the meanings
ascribed in this section:
Housing which is in sound, clean, and weathertight condition
in conformance with applicable local, state, and national codes.
Any difference expressed in any way toward a person or persons
in the terms of the sale, exchange, lease, rental or financing for
housing accommodation and/or real property in regard to such sale,
exchange, rental, lease or finance because of the race, color, religion,
national origin or ancestry, sex, creed or physical or mental handicap
of such person.
Any person, institution or business entity of any kind which
loans money to persons and receives as security for said loan a secured
interest of any kind in the real property of the borrower.
Includes any building, structure, or portion thereof which
is used or occupied, maintained, arranged or designed to be used or
occupied as a home, residence or sleeping place of one or more human
beings, or any real estate so used, designed or intended for such
use.
Any person or persons who hold legal or equitable title to,
or own any beneficial interest in, any real property or who hold legal
or equitable title to shares of, or hold any beneficial interest in,
any real estate cooperative which owns any real property and/or housing
accommodations.
Any person, partnership, association, corporation and/or
agent thereof who, for a fee or other valuable consideration, offers,
sells, purchases, exchanges or rents, or negotiates for the sale,
purchase, exchange or rental of a housing accommodation and/or real
property of another, or collects rental for the use of a housing accommodation
and/or real property of another.
Any real estate, vacant land, building, structure or housing
accommodations within the corporate limits of the City of Mendota,
Illinois.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any owner of real estate, lessee, sublessee,
real estate broker or salesman, financial institution or employee
of the financial institution, advertiser, or agent of any or all of
the foregoing to discriminate against any person or persons because
of their race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex,
creed, or physical or mental handicap with regard to the sale, exchange
or rental, or any dealing concerning any housing accommodation and/or
real property.
B.
In addition to the foregoing, it shall also be unlawful for any real
estate broker or employee thereof, owner or other person, or financial
institution dealing with housing or real property in the City of Mendota,
Illinois:
(1)
To discriminate against any person in the availability of or the
price, terms, conditions, or privileges of any kind relating to the
sale, rental, lease, or occupancy of any housing accommodation of
real property in the City or in furnishing of any facilities or services
in connection therewith.
(2)
To publish or circulate, or cause to be published or circulated,
any notice, statement or advertisement, or to announce a policy, or
to use any form of application for the purchase, lease, rental or
financing of real property, or to make any record of inquiry in connection
with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of such real estate,
which expresses, directly or indirectly, any discrimination as to
race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, creed, or
physical or mental handicap of any person.
(3)
To discriminate in connection with lending money, guaranteeing loans,
accepting mortgages or otherwise obtaining or making available funds
for the purchase, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair
or maintenance of any housing accommodation and/or real property.
(4)
To solicit for the sale, lease, or listing for the sale or lease
of any housing accommodation and/or real property on the ground of
loss of value because of the presence or prospective entry into any
neighborhood of any person or persons of any particular race, color,
religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or
mental handicap.
(5)
To distribute or cause to be distributed written material or statements
designed to induce any owner of any housing accommodation and/or real
property to sell or lease his or her property because of any present
or prospective change in the race, color, religion, national origin
or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or mental handicap of persons
in the neighborhood.
(6)
To make any misrepresentations concerning the listing for sale or
the anticipated listing for sale or the sale of any housing accommodation
and/or real property for the purpose of inducing or attempting to
induce the sale or listing for sale of any housing accommodation and/or
real property by representing that the presence or anticipated presence
of persons of any particular race, color, religion, national origin
or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or mental handicap in the area
will or may result in the lowering of property values in the block,
neighborhood or area in which the property is located.
C.
In addition
to the foregoing, it shall also be unlawful for any owner of real
property in the City of Mendota, Illinois:
(1)
To solicit any real estate broker to sell, rent or otherwise deal
with such owner's housing accommodations and/or real property with
any limitation on its sale based on race, color, religion, national
origin or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or mental handicap.
(2)
To refuse to sell, rent, or otherwise deal with any housing accommodation
and/or real property because of race, color, religion, national origin
or ancestry, sex, creed, or physical or mental handicap of the proposed
buyer or tenant.
Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine as set forth in Chapter 1, Article III, Penalties and Enforcement, of the City Code. It is the right of the City of Mendota, Illinois, to specifically enforce, by any legal means, any of the provisions of this chapter.
