(A) Any credible person who claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice or who believes that he will be irrevocably injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur (hereafter referred to a “person aggrieved”) may file a complaint with the Administrator. Such complaints shall be in writing and shall identify the person alleged to have committed or alleged to be about to commit the discriminatory housing practice and shall set forth the particulars thereof. The Administrator is directed to prepare and adopt from time to time standard complaint forms and to furnish them without charge to any person aggrieved.
(B) The Administrator shall receive and accept notification and referral of complaints from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the provisions of Title VIII, Fair Housing Act of 1988, being 42 USC 3601 et seq., and shall treat such complaints in the same manner as complaints filed directly by the person aggrieved.
(C) If, in the course of any investigation as provided in § 100.08 on a complaint filed with or referred to the Administrator, he shall receive credible evidence and shall have probable cause to believe that the person or persons named in such complaint have committed a discriminatory housing practice on grounds not stated in such complaint, the administrator may prepare and file a supplementary complaint upon his own motion and in his own name; and such supplementary complaint thereafter be treated in the same manner as an original complaint filed by a person aggrieved.
(D) Upon the filing or referral of any complaint, the administrator shall furnish a copy of the same to the person or persons named in the complaint.
(E) All complaints filed under divisions (A), (B) and (C) shall be filed within 60 days after the alleged discriminatory housing practice occurred. Complaints shall state the facts upon which the allegations of a discriminatory housing practice are based. The accused may file an answer to the complaint against him within 15 days of his receipt of the complaint and, with the leave of the Administrator, which shall be granted whenever it would be reasonable and fair to do so, may amend his answer at any time. A copy of an amendment to a complaint or an answer shall be furnished to the opposing party. Both complaints and answers shall be signed by the persons making them and sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oaths.
('68 Code, § 11½-7) (Ord. 2-1979-5, passed 2-13-79; Am. Ord. 9-1995-34, passed 9-26-95)