It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice and a misdemeanor offense:
A. Sale, Lease Or Rental: For any person to discriminate on the grounds of race, creed, religion, color, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, national origin, age or disability, in the sale, lease, or rental of any housing unit or units.
B. Broker, Agent, Or Salesman: For any broker, agent, salesperson or other person acting in behalf of another to so discriminate in the sale, lease, or rental of any housing unit or units belonging to such other person.
C. Financial; Insurance: For any person engaged in the business of financing the purchase, rehabilitation, remodeling or repair of housing units or in the business of selling insurance with respect to housing units to refuse to provide such financing or insurance or to discriminate with regard to the terms or conditions thereof by reason of the race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age or disability of the applicant or because of the location of the unit or units in areas of the city occupied by persons of a particular race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age or disability; or to discriminate by treating differently any person or group of persons who desire to purchase, lease, acquire, construct, rehabilitate, repair or maintain real property in a specific urban area because of social, economic or environmental conditions of the area in the granting, withholding, extending, modifying or renewing, or in the rates, terms, conditions or privileges of any such financial assistance or in the extension of services in connection therewith. The bona fide programs of federal, state or local governmental units or agencies, however structured or authorized to upgrade or improve in any manner a specific urban area, shall not be deemed to be a violation of this section.
D. Facilities, Services Or Privileges Of Occupancy: For any person having sold, leased, or rented a housing unit or units to any person to discriminate with respect to facilities, services, or privileges of occupancy by reason of race, color, sex, creed, religion, national origin, age or disability, marital status or status with regard to public assistance.
E. Make Or Publish Statement: For any person to make or publish any statement evidencing an intent to discriminate, on grounds of race, creed, religion, color, sex, national origin or ancestry, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age or disability, in the sale, lease, or rental of a housing unit or units.
F. Inquiry: For any person to make any inquiry regarding race, color, sex, creed, religion, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age or disability, or to keep any record or use any form of application, designed to elicit such information, in connection with the sale, lease, rental or financing of a housing unit or units.
G. Inducement: For any person, for the purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which he may benefit financially:
1. To represent that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition of the block, neighborhood, or area in which the property is located, in respect to the race, color, sex, creed, religion, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age or disability of those living there; or
2. To represent that this change will or may result in the lowering of property values, an increase in crime, or antisocial behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools in the block, neighborhood, or area concerned.
H. Interpretation Of Provisions: Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to required any person or group of persons selling, renting or leasing property to modify the property in any way, or exercise a higher degree of care for a person having a disability than for a person who does not have a disability; nor shall this chapter be construed to relieve any person of any obligation generally imposed on all persons regardless of any disability in a written lease, rental agreement, or contract or purchase or sale, or to forbid distinctions based on the inability to fulfill the terms and conditions, including financial obligations of such lease, agreement or contract.
I. Exceptions: The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:
1. The rental of a portion of a dwelling containing accommodations for two (2) families, one of which is occupied by the owner; or
2. The rental by an owner or occupier of a one-family accommodation in which he resides of a room or rooms in such accommodation to another person or persons if the discrimination is by sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability. Nothing in the chapter shall be construed to require any person or group of persons selling, renting or leasing property to modify the property in any way, or exercise a higher degree of care for a person having a disability than for a person who does not have a disability; nor shall this chapter be construed to relieve any person of any obligation generally imposed on all persons regardless of any disability in a written lease, rental agreement, or contract of purchase or sale, or to forbid distinctions based on the inability to fulfill the terms and conditions, including financial obligations, of such lease, agreement or contract. (1982 Code § 8.713)