As used in this Subchapter:
“A Member of His Family” shall mean the owner and his spouse and any son, daughter, parent, or grandparent of the owner or his spouse, or any person who is wholly dependent on any of the above.
“Commission” shall mean the Bowling Green Human Rights Commission.
“Commissioner” shall mean a member of the Bowling Green Human Rights Commission.
“Conciliation” shall mean the attempted resolution of issues raised by a complaint or by the investigation of the complaint through informal negotiations involving the aggrieved person, the respondent and the Commission.
“Disability” shall mean: (a) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of such individual; (b) a record of such an impairment; or (c) being regarded as having such an impairment, but such term does not include the current illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance as defined in 21 U.S.C. Section 02 and does not apply to an individual because of an individual’s sexual orientation or because that individual is a transvestite.
"Discriminate" and "Discrimination" shall mean any direct or indirect act or practice of exclusion, distinction, restriction, segregation, limitation, refusal, denial or any other act or practice of differentiation or preference in the treatment of a person or persons because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability or familial status.
"Familial Status" shall mean one or more individuals who have not attained the age of eighteen (18) being domiciled with a parent or another person having legal custody of such individual or individuals, or the designee of such parent or other person having such custody with the written permission of such parent or other person, and includes any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.
"Financial Institution" shall mean any person as defined herein engaged in the business of lending money for the purchase, lease, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair, maintenance or improvement of real property and shall include any individual employed by or acting on behalf of such person.
"Housing Accommodation" shall mean and include improved and unimproved property and means a building, structure, lot or part thereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied as the home or residence of one or more individuals. Such accommodation includes:
a. "Housing Unit" shall mean a single room, suite of rooms or apartment containing cooking and kitchen facilities occupied or intended for occupancy as living quarters by a person, a family or a group of persons living together; and,
b. "Rooming Unit" shall mean any room or group of rooms forming a single, habitable unit used for living or sleeping, but which does not contain cooking and kitchen facilities.
"Owner" shall mean and include a lessee, sublessee, co-tenant, assignee, managing agent or other person having the right of ownership or possession, or the right to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation.
"Person" shall mean and include an individual and any group of one or more natural persons such as, but not limited to, labor unions, joint apprenticeship committees, partnerships, associations, corporations, unincorporated organizations, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, legal representatives, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, any individuals acting in a financial or representative capacity either appointed by a court or otherwise, the City and County or any of its agencies, and any other legal, governmental or commercial entity, as well as a natural person. The term "persons" when applied to any of the foregoing includes members, representatives, shareholders, officers and directors.
"Real Estate Broker" or "Real Estate Salesman" shall mean an individual, whether licensed or not, who for a fee, commission, salary or for other valuable consideration, or who with the intention or expectation of receiving or collecting same, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or leases any housing accommodation, including options thereupon, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate such activities, or who advertises or holds himself out as engaged in such activities, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan, secured by a mortgage or other encumbrance upon transfer of any housing accommodation, or who is engaged in the business of charging an advance fee or contracting for the collection of a fee in connection with a contract whereby he undertakes to promote the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of any housing accommodation through its listing in a publication issued primarily for such purpose, or an individual employed by or acting in behalf of any of these.
"Real Estate Operator" shall mean any person as defined in this Subchapter who is engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or leasing real estate or the improvements thereon, including options, or that derives income, in whole or in part from the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of real estate, or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
"Real Property" shall mean and include buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, cooperatives, condominiums and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest in the above.
(Ord. BG80-63, S16-35, 7/15/80; Ord. BG80-102, S6, 12/2/80; Ord. BG84-58, 10/16/84; Ord. BG2000-51, 12/5/2000; Ord. BG2003-53, 10/7/2003)