(a) 
After public hearings with the reception of testimony and documentary evidence, the city council finds that discrimination against families with minor children in the leasing and renting of housing accommodations exists within the city. The council further finds that the existence of such discrimination poses a substantial hardship and threat to the health and welfare of a sizeable segment of the community, namely, families with minor children.
(b) 
The council finds that such discrimination results in the unavailability of many low and moderate cost rental units to families with minor children. The council further finds that such discrimination has an overall detrimental effect on the composition of the city, the stability of neighborhoods, the preservation of family life within the city, and the living conditions of children.
(Ord. 1036 § 1)
For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Housing accommodation
is a residential housing unit consisting of one or more rooms with facilities for living, sleeping, cooking, eating, and sanitation.
Minor child
is a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years.
Parent
is any person who has legal custody and control of a minor child, and with whom the minor child maintains his or her place of abode.
Senior adults
are all persons who have attained the age of sixty or more years.
University affiliated residence halls
are residential facilities provided by private property owners under agreement with the University of California for the limited purpose of providing room and board to University of California, at Davis, students. Such housing is provided on a school-year rather than a year-round basis.
(Ord. 1036 § 1)
Except for housing accommodations specifically exempted in Section 18.03.040, it shall be unlawful for the owner, lessor, lessee, sub-lessee, real estate broker, assignee, or other person having the right of ownership, the right of possession, or the right to rent or lease any housing accommodation, or any agent or employee of such person to:
(a) 
Refuse to rent or lease, or otherwise deny to or withhold from any person such housing accommodations on the basis of age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child;
(b) 
Represent to any person on the basis of age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child that housing accommodations are not available for inspection or rental when such dwelling is in fact so available;
(c) 
Make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement or advertisement with respect to the rental of housing accommodations that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child;
(d) 
Discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions or privileges of the rental of housing accommodations (including, but not limited to, rental rates or security deposits), or in the provision of services or facilities in connection therewith, because of age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child;
(e) 
Refuse to rent after the making of a bona fide offer, or refuse to negotiate for the rental of, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, housing accommodations to any person because of age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child;
(f) 
Include in any lease or rental agreement of housing accommodations a clause providing that as a condition of continued tenancy the tenants shall remain childless or shall not bear children or otherwise maintain a household with a person or persons of a certain age;
(g) 
Evict or otherwise demand surrender of housing accommodations from any person because of age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child;
(h) 
Charge additional rent for persons living in a housing accommodation on the basis of age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child.
(Ord. 1036 § 1)
The following are exempt from this article:
(a) 
Federally financed senior adults' housing accommodations;
(b) 
Selection of a roommate by one or more residents of a housing accommodation where such residents will continue to reside within the housing accommodation;
(c) 
Requirements of a landlord requiring supervision of minors under fourteen years of age in the use of swimming pools, hot tubs, saunas, or similar facilities, provided that such requirements are reasonably related to health and safety;
(d) 
University affiliated housing as designated by agreement existing on the date of adoption of the ordinance codified in this article;
(e) 
Mobile homes in an adults only mobile home park established in accordance with state law.
(Ord. 1036 § 1; Ord. 1044 § 1)
(a) 
This article shall not prohibit the person having the right to rent or lease the premises from imposing uniform requirements upon prospective tenants so long as such requirements are otherwise lawful and are imposed without regard to age, parenthood, pregnancy, or presence of a minor child.
(b) 
By example, and not by way of limitation, a landlord may establish a limitation on the number of occupants in a particular type of unit; however, in the case of an occupancy limit it shall be:
(1) 
Reasonably related to the size of the unit; and
(2) 
Conspicuously posted on the premises or stated in a written policy statement, house rules or notice; and
(3) 
Shall be equally applied to all prospective residents, except that no occupancy limitation shall apply to a newborn infant during the term of any lease in effect on the date of birth.
(Ord. 1036 § 1)
(a) 
The sole remedy for violation of this article shall be as provided by this section.
(b) 
Any person who violates the provisions of this article shall be liable in a civil action for each such violation, as follows: a minimum award for each violation of one hundred dollars unless it is determined that such violation was wilful, in which case the minimum award shall be two hundred fifty dollars. In all cases the maximum award for each violation shall be seven hundred fifty dollars. In establishing the amount of the award, the court shall consider all relevant factors, including any actual damage, injury or hardship to plaintiff and any prior violations by defendant.
(Ord. 1036 § 1)