A.
The
purposes of this Chapter are:
1.
To secure for all individuals within the City freedom from any discriminatory practice made unlawful by Article II of this Chapter.
2.
To implement within the City the policies embodied in Missouri and
Federal human rights legislation and to promote cooperation between
the City and the State and Federal agencies enforcing that legislation.
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms shall
be deemed to have the meanings indicated below:
The Missouri Commission on Human Rights.
A person who has filed a complaint with the Commission alleging
that another person has engaged in a prohibited discriminatory practice.
A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits
one (1) or more of a person's major life activities, being regarded
as having such an impairment, or a record of having such an impairment,
which with or without reasonable accommodation does not interfere
with performing the job, utilizing the place of public accommodation,
or occupying the dwelling in question. For purposes of this Chapter,
the term "disability" does not include current, illegal
use of or addiction to a controlled substance as such term is defined
by Section 195.010, RSMo.; however, a person may be considered to
have a disability if that person:
Has successfully completed a supervised drug rehabilitation
program and is no longer engaging in the illegal use of, and is not
currently addicted to, a controlled substance or has otherwise been
rehabilitated successfully and is no longer engaging in such use and
is not currently addicted;
Is participating in a supervised rehabilitation program and
is no longer engaging in illegal use of controlled substances; or
Is erroneously regarded as currently illegally using, or being
addicted to, a controlled substance.
Any unfair treatment based on race, color, religion, national
origin, ancestry, sex, age as it relates to employment, disability
or familial status as it relates to housing.
Any building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied
as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one (1)
or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or
lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building,
structure or portion thereof.
One (1) or more individuals who have not attained the age
of eighteen (18) years being domiciled with:
A parent or another person having legal custody of such individual;
or
The designee of such parent or other person having such custody,
with the written permission of such parent or other person.
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The protection afforded against discrimination on the basis
of familial status shall apply to any person who is pregnant or is
in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has
not attained the age of eighteen (18) years.
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Housing:
Provided under any State or Federal program that the Commission
determines is specifically designed and operated to assist elderly
persons, as defined in the State or Federal program;
Intended for, and solely occupied by, persons sixty-two (62)
years of age or older; or
Intended and operated for occupancy by at least one (1) person
fifty-five (55) years of age or older per unit.
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Housing qualifies as housing for older persons under this Chapter
if:
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1.
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The housing has significant facilities and services specifically
designed to meet the physical or social needs of older persons, or
if the provision of such facilities and services is not practicable,
that such housing is necessary to provide important housing opportunities
for older persons;
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2.
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At least eighty percent (80%) of the units are occupied by at
least one (1) person fifty-five (55) years of age or older per unit;
and
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3.
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The owner or manager of the housing has published and adhered
to policies and procedures which demonstrate an intent by said owner
or manager to provide housing for persons fifty-five (55) years of
age or older.
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Includes one (1) or more individuals, corporations, partnerships,
associations, organizations, labor organizations, legal representatives,
mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, trustees, trustees
in bankruptcy, receivers, fiduciaries or other organized groups of
persons.
All places or businesses offering or holding out to the general
public goods, services, privileges, facilities, advantages or accommodations
for the peace, comfort, health, welfare and safety of the general
public or such public places providing food, shelter, recreation and
amusement including, but not limited to:
Any inn, hotel, motel or other establishment which provides
lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within
a building which contains not more than five (5) rooms for rent or
hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment
as his/her residence;
Any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain
or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption
on the premises including, but not limited to, any such facility located
on the premises of any retail establishment;
Any gasoline station, including all facilities located on the
premises of such gasoline station and made available to the patrons
thereof;
Any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena,
stadium or other place of exhibition or entertainment;
Any public facility owned, operated or managed by or on behalf
of this State or any agency or subdivision thereof or any public corporation;
and any such facility supported in whole or in part by public funds;
or
Any establishment which is physically located within the premises
of any establishment otherwise covered by this Section or within the
premises of which is physically located any such covered establishment,
and which holds itself out as serving patrons of such covered establishment.
Includes to lease, to sublease, to let and otherwise to grant
for consideration the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupant.
A person who is alleged to have engaged in a prohibited discriminatory
practice in a complaint filed with the Commission.
Any act that is unlawful under this Chapter.
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.
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 Pasadena Hills 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 220.020 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 220.020 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.
Nothing
in this Chapter shall be construed to invalidate or limit any law
of the State or of the City that requires dwellings to be designed
and constructed in a manner that affords persons with disabilities
greater access than is required by this Chapter.
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 220.030, 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.
