The provisions of this chapter shall not:
(a) Prohibit a religious organization, association or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association or society, from limiting the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference to such persons, unless membership in such religion is restricted on account of race, color or national origin. Nor shall anything in this chapter prohibit a private club not in fact open to the public, which as an incident to its primary purpose or purposes provides lodgings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, from limiting the rental or occupancy of such lodgings to its members or from giving preference to its members, provided such club does not discriminate in its membership policies on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, disability, familial status, military status, sexual orientation or national origin.
(b) Prohibit restricting the sale or rental of a dwelling on the basis of a disability when such a dwelling is authorized, approved, financed or subsidized in whole or in part for the benefit of persons of a disability by a unit of State, local or Federal government, so long as such restrictions do not discriminate against otherwise qualified disabled persons.
(c) Require that a dwelling be made available to a person with a disability whose tenancy would constitute a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals or whose tenancy would result in substantial physical damage to the property of others.
(d) Prohibit the applicability of any reasonable local, State or Federal restrictions regarding the maximum number of occupants permitted to occupy a dwelling.
(e) With regard to familial status, apply to dwellings provided under any State or Federal program specifically designed and operated to assist elderly persons, as defined in the State or Federal program, or to housing for older persons provided that HUD has determined that such program or housing is exempt, which determination shall be conclusive.
(f) Prohibit a person engaged in the business of furnishing appraisals of real property to take into consideration factors other than race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, military status, sexual orientation or familial status.
(g) Prohibit conduct against a person because such person has been convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction of the illegal manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance as defined in 21 U.S.C. Section 802.
(Ord. 2010-125. Passed 11-10-10; Ord. 2012-86. Passed 9-12-12.)