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 from 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, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
(b) Require any person selling or renting property to modify such property in any way at his or her expense, nor shall this chapter be construed to relieve any handicapped person of any obligation generally imposed on all persons regardless of handicap 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 the lease, agreement or contact.
(c) Prohibit restricting the sale or rental of a dwelling on the basis of handicap when such a dwelling is authorized, approved, financed, or subsidized in whole or in part for the benefit of persons of a handicap by a unit of State, local or federal government.
(d) Require that a dwelling be made available to an individual 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.
(e) Prohibit the applicability of any reasonable local, state or federal restrictions regarding the maximum number of occupants permitted to occupy a dwelling.
(f) 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.
(g) 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, handicap, or familial status.
(h) As to familial status only, apply to any single-family house sold or rented by an owner, under the terms and conditions set forth in 42 U.S.C. Section 3603(b); or to rooms or units in dwellings containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by no more than four families living independently of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupies one of such living quarters as his residence.
(Ord. 2000-58. Passed 10-11-00.)