As used in this chapter:
(a) “Board” means the Fair Housing Board established in Section 628.07.
(b) “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, age or handicap.
(c) “Housing” means and includes any building, facility or structure, or portion 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.
(d) “Lending institution” means any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or person regularly engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans.
(e) “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, labor organization, legal representative, mutual company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver or fiduciary.
(f) “Real estate agent” means and includes any real estate broker, real estate salesperson or an agent thereof, or any other person, who, for consideration, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of real property, or who holds himself or herself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or otherwise transferring any interest in real property.
(Ord. 79-978. Passed 7-17-79.)