As used in this chapter:
(a) "Board" means the Board of Human Rights, which is hereby designated and appointed as the Fair Housing Board.
(b) "Discriminating," "discrimination" and "discriminate" mean to render any difference in treatment to any person in any sale, lease, rental or financing of a dwelling or housing unit because of a person's race, color, creed, sex, marital status, religious belief, national origin, age, handicap or familial status.
(c) "Familial status" means one or more individuals (who have not attained the age of eighteen years) being domiciled with:
(1) A parent or another person having legal custody of such an individual or individuals; or
(2) The designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or other person.
The protections afforded against discrimination on the basis of familial status shall apply to any person who is pregnant or in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of eighteen.
(d) "Handicap" means, with respect to a person:
(1) A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person's major life activities;
(2) A record of having such an impairment; or
(3) Being regarded as having such an impairment.
However, the term "handicap" does not include a person's current, illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance (as defined in Section 102 of the Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. 802)).
(e) “Housing” means any building, facility or structure, or part thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, groups or families, and includes any vacant land offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of such building, facility or structure.
(f) "Lending institution" means any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or any other person or organization regularly engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans.
(g) "Person" means one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and fiduciaries.
(h) "Real estate agent" means any real estate broker or real estate salesman, or an agent thereof, or any other person, partnership association or corporation, who or which, for consideration, sells, purchases, exchanges or rents real property, or negotiates or offers, or attempts to negotiate or offer, the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of real property, or holds himself or herself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or otherwise transferring any interest in real property.
(Ord. 6223. Passed 6-12-01.)