As used in this chapter:
(a) “Real estate agent” means any real estate broker, real estate salesman or an agent thereof, or any other person, partnership, association or corporation, who or which, for consideration, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate 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.
(b) “Board” means the Fair Housing Board established in this chapter.
(c) “Discrimination,” “discriminating,” or “discriminate” means to render any difference in treatment to any person in the 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 or handicap.
(d) “Housing” means any building, facility, structure or portion thereof which is used, occupied or 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 any vacant land offered for sale or lease for the construction or location of such building, facility or structure.
(e) “Lending institution” means any bank, building and loan association, savings and loan association, insurance company or other person whose business consists in whole or in part in the lending of money or guaranteeing of loans.
(f) “Person” means one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, firms, enterprises, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers or fiduciaries.
(Ord. 2306. Passed 8-20-84.)