(a) "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and other organized groups of persons. It also includes, but is not limited to, any owner, lessor, assignor, builder, manager, broker, salesperson, agent, employee, lending institution; and, the State of Ohio, the City of Celina, and all authorities, agencies, boards and commissions thereof.
(b) "Discriminate" includes segregate or separate.
(d) "Housing accommodations" includes any building or structure or vacant land or any portion thereof offered for sale or lease which is used or occupied or intended for use or occupancy as the home residence or sleeping place of one or more individuals, groups or families whether or not living independently of each other.
It includes any housing accommodations held or offered for sale by a real estate broker, salesman, or agent, or by any person pursuant to authorization of the owner, by the owner or by such person's legal representative.
(e) "Restrictive covenant" means any specification limiting the transfer, rental, lease or any other use of any housing accommodation because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, ancestry, or any limitation based upon affiliations with or approval by any person, directly or indirectly, employing race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap or ancestry as a condition of affiliation or approval.
(f) "Burial lot" means any lot for the burial of deceased persons within any public burial ground or cemetery, including, but not limited to, cemeteries owned and operated by municipal corporations, townships, or companies or associations incorporated for cemetery purposes.
(g) "Handicap" means any medically diagnosable, abnormal condition which is expected to continue for a considerable length of time, whether correctable or uncorrectable by good medical practice, which can reasonably be expected to limit the person's functional ability, including, but not limited to seeing, hearing, thinking, ambulating, climbing, descending, lifting, grasping, sitting, rising, any related function, or any limitation due to weakness and significantly reduced endurance, so he cannot perform his everyday routine living and working without significantly increased hardship and vulnerability to what are considered the everyday obstacles and hazards encountered by the nonhandicapped.
(Ord. 25-90-0. Passed 11-26-90.)