The purposes of this subchapter are:
(A) To secure for all individuals within the city freedom from discrimination in connection with employment, public accommodation, housing, education and credit; and thereby to protect the personal dignity of these individuals, to ensure their full productive capacities, to preserve the public safety, health and general welfare, and to promote the interests, rights and privileges of individual citizens within the city;
(B) To provide for the execution within the city of the policies embodied in the Iowa Civil Rights Act of 1965 and in the Federal Civil Rights Act and to promote cooperation between the city and the state and federal agencies enforcing these acts; and
(C) To provide, at the local level, a Commission on Human Rights, dedicated to the following: effective enforcement of the Iowa Civil Rights Act, service as a source of information to employers, laborers, business persons, employees, tenants and other citizens relative to various civil rights legislation and regulations; and active assistance to prevent and eliminate the effect of discriminatory practices.
(1999 Code, § 31.01)