For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Those acts which the Commission, as defined in this section, deems necessary to assure compliance with this chapter.
APPRAISER. Any person who, for a fee or otherwise, establishes or estimates a value for a housing unit, as defined in this section.
BUSINESS. Any corporation or public association organized for profit.
COMMISSION. The Mayor’s Commission on Human Rights, created in this chapter.
DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE. The exclusion of a person from equal opportunities because of race, religion, color, sex, age, handicap, national origin or ancestry; or a system which excludes persons from equal opportunities because of race, religion, color, sex, age, handicap, national origin or ancestry; or the promotion of racial segregation or separation in any manner including, but not limited to, the inducing of or the attempting to induce, for profit, any person to sell or rent any dwelling by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry in the neighborhood of a person or persons of a particular race, religion, color, sex, age, handicap, national origin or ancestry. Every discriminatory practice relating to the acquisition or sale of real estate, education, public accommodations employment, or the extending of credit, as “credit” is defined in IC 24-4.5-1-301.5, shall be considered unlawful unless it is specifically exempted by this chapter.
HANDICAP. The physical or mental condition of a person which constitutes a substantial disability. In reference to employment, under this chapter, HANDICAP or HANDICAPPED also means the physical or mental condition of a person which constitutes a substantial disability unrelated to such a person’s ability to engage in a particular occupation.
HOUSING UNIT. Any area which is:
(1) A single room or suite of rooms or an apartment or a dwelling occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by an individual, by a family or by a group of individuals living together; or
(2) A parcel of real property or a lot available for the construction of a housing unit.
INSURANCE COMPANY. Any person, as defined in this section, underwriting losses caused by the usual hazards covered by such persons.
LENDING INSTITUTION. Any person regularly engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans.
OWNER. The lessee, sublessee, assignee, managing agent or other person having the right of ownership or possession or the right to sell, rent or lease any housing unit.
PERSON. One or more individuals, partnership, associations, organizations, corporations, labor organizations, cooperatives, legal representatives, trustee, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and other organized groups or persons.
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Any establishment which caters or offers its services or facilities or goods to the general public.
REAL ESTATE BROKER. Any person, partnership, association or corporation, who for a fee or other valuable consideration, sells, purchases, exchanges or rents, negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of the real property of another, or holds himself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging or renting the real property of another, or collects rental for the use of real property of another.
REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON or AGENT. Any person employed by a real estate broker to perform or assist in the performance of any or all of the functions of a real estate broker. The term “agent” shall not include the owner, publisher or operator or employees of the owner, publisher or operator of any newspaper, radio or television station with respect to any announcement, advertisement or commercial purchased by any other person for publication or broadcast in or by any such newspaper, radio or television station or with respect to any news story, editorial or comment by a member of the public published or broadcast in or by any such newspaper, radio or television station.
SEX. The term, as it applies to segregation or separation in this chapter applies to all types of employment, education, public accommodations and housing: provided, however, that it shall not be a discriminatory practice to maintain separate restrooms; and that it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, joint labor management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any other individual in any such program on the basis of sex, in those certain instances where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise; and that it shall not be a discriminatory practice for a private or religious educational institution to continue to maintain and enforce a policy of
admitting students of one sex only; and that it shall not be a discriminatory practice for an owner of a single-family dwelling who resides therein but rents or leases rooms in that same dwelling to lease to persons of one sex only.
(‘85 Code, § 13.02(b)) (Ord. 29-1979, passed --79)