As used in this chapter:
(a) “Bona fide offer” means an offer which meets a price agreeable to the offeree and is made in good faith without deceit, fraud or collusion, and which the offeror intends and is willing and able to perform.
(b) “Discrimination” means to render any difference in treatment to any person in the sale, lease, rental or financing of a dwelling or housing unit because of a person's race, color, national, origin, sex, handicap, religious belief, ancestry or familial status.
(c) “Discriminatory housing practice” means any act that is unlawful as designated by this chapter.
(d) “Dwelling” means any building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designated or intended for occupancy as a residence by one 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.
(e) “Familial status” means one or more individuals (who have not attained the age of 18 years being domiciled with: (1) a parent or another person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or (2) the designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or their person; and 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 18 years.
(f) “Family” includes a single individual.
(g) “Handicap” means a medically diagnosed abnormal condition resulting from anatomical, physical or psychological abnormalities which are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques, and which is expected to continue for a considerable length of time, whether correctable or uncorrectable by medical practice, and which, within reasonable medical certainty, substantially limits one or more of the person's major life activities. “Handicap” shall not include conditions of habitual drunkenness or addiction to controlled substances.
(h) “Person” includes one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and fiduciaries. It also includes, but is not limited to any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesman, agent, employee, lending institution, and the City of Brook Park, the State of Ohio and all City and State authorities, agencies, boards and commissions.
(i) “To rent” includes a lease or sublease, to let and otherwise to grant for a consideration the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupants.
(Ord. 9674-2010. Passed 10-19-10.)