[HISTORY: Adopted by the President and Board of Trustees
of the Village of Granville 5-21-2002 by Ord. No. 457. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning and land developmentย โย See Ch. 285.
The 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois provides as follows
in Article I:
" . . . no person shall be denied any civil or political right,
privilege or capacity on account of his religious opinions . . ."
(Section 3)
" . . All persons shall have the right to be free from discrimination
on the basis of race, color, creed, national ancestry and sex in .
. . the sale or rental of property . . ." (Section 17)
"The equal protection of the laws shall not be denied or abridged
on account of sex by the State or its units of local government and
school districts." (Section 18)
"All persons with a physical or mental handicap shall be free
from discrimination in the sale or rental of property . . ." (Section
19)
The Congress of the United States has provided that "it is the
policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations,
for fair housing throughout the United States" and has established
by law the following provisions:
". . . it shall be unlawful:
A.ย
To refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona fide offer,
or to refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of, or otherwise
make available or deny, a dwelling to any person because of race,
color, religion, sex, familial status or national origin."
B.ย
To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions, or privileges
of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provisions of services
or facilities in connection therewith because of race, color, religion,
sex, familial status or national origin . . ."
A.ย
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 Village to assure
equal opportunity to all residents, regardless of race, color, religion,
national origin, or ancestry, sex, familial status, creed, or physical
or mental handicap, to live in decent, sanitary, healthful, standard
living quarters.
B.ย
It is the policy of the Village 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 Village, 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, familial status, 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,
familial status, 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.ย
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,
as used in this chapter the following terms 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 financing because of race, color, religion,
national origin or ancestry, sex, familial status, creed, or physical
or mental handicap of such person.[1]
Any person, institution or business entity of any kind who
or which loans money to persons and receives as security for said
loans 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/persons who hold legal or equitable title to,
or owns/own any beneficial interest in any real property or who hold
legal or equitable title to shares of, or holds/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 or which, 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 Village.
A.ย
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, familial
status, 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.ย
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 Village:
(1)ย
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 or
real property in the Village or in furnishing of any facilities or
services in connection therewith.
(2)ย
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, familial status, creed
or physical or mental handicap of any person.
(3)ย
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)ย
To solicit for the sale, lease, or listing for the sale or lease,
of any housing accommodation and/or real property on the grounds of
loss of value because of the present or prospective entry into any
neighborhood of any person or persons of any particular race, color,
religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, familial status, creed,
or physical or mental handicap.
(5)ย
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, familial status, creed, or physical or mental handicap
of persons in the neighborhood.
(6)ย
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, familial status, 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.
(7)ย
For an owner 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, familial status, creed, physical or mental
handicap.
(8)ย
For an owner 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, familial status, 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 of not less than $100 nor more
than $1,500. Each day a violation continues shall constitute a separate
violation. This section shall in no way abrogate or impair the right
of the Village to specifically enforce, by any legal means, any of
the provisions of this chapter.