The following terms used in this Chapter shall have the following meanings:
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION: Includes any improved or unimproved real property, or part thereof, which is used or occupied as the home or residence of one or more individuals.
NATIONAL ORIGIN: Includes the national origin of an ancestor.
PERSON: Includes an individual, association, corporation, legal representative, mutual company, partnership and any other legal or commercial entity.
REAL ESTATE BROKER or SALESMAN: A person, whether licensed or not, who, for or with the expectation of receiving a consideration, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or leases real property, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of these activities, or who holds himself out as engaged in these activities, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon real property, or who is engaged in the business of listing real property in a publication, or a person employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION: Includes the sale, exchange, rental or lease of real property.
REAL PROPERTY: Includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, real estate cooperatives, condominiums or any interest therein.
SEX: Refers to gender, male or female.
It shall be unlawful within the City:
A. For an owner, lessor or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or for a real estate broker or salesman, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or sex:
1. To refuse to engage in a real estate transaction with a person;
2. To discriminate against a person in the terms, conditions or privileges of a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith;
3. To refuse to receive or to fail to transmit a bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction from a person;
4. To refuse to negotiate a real estate transaction with a person;
5. To represent to a person that real property is not available for inspection, sale, rental or lease when in fact it is so available, or to fail to bring a property listing to his attention, or to refuse to permit him to inspect real property;
6. To print, circulate, post or mail or cause to be so published a statement, advertisement or sign, or to use a form of application for a real estate transaction, or to make a record or inquiry in connection with a prospective real estate transaction, which indicates, directly or indirectly, an intent to make a limitation, specification or discrimination with respect thereto; or
7. To offer, solicit, accept, use or retain a listing of real property with the understanding that a person may be discriminated against in a real estate transaction or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.
B. For a person to whom application is made for financial assistance in connection with a real estate transaction or for the construction, rehabilitation, repair, maintenance or improvement of real property, or a representative of such person, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or sex:
1. To discriminate against the applicant;
2. To use a form of application for financial assistance or to make or keep a record or inquiry in connection with applications for financial assistance which indicates directly or indirectly, an intent to make a limitation, specification, or discrimination.
C. For a person for the purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which he may benefit financially, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or sex:
1. To represent that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition of the owners or occupants in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located; or
2. To represent that this change will or may result in the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located.
D. To insert in a written instrument relating to real property a provision which purports to forbid or restrict the conveyance, encumbrance, occupancy or lease thereof on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or sex. (Ord. 399, 2-5-1980)
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