COMMISSION. The Human Rights Commission.
COMMISSIONER. A member of the Commission.
DISCRIMINATION. Any direct or indirect act or practice of exclusion, distinction, restriction, degradation, limitation, refusal, denial or any other act, practice or differentiation or preference in the treatment of a person or persons because of race, color, religion or national origin.
HOUSING ACCOMMODATION. A building, structure or part thereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as the home or residence of one or more individuals.
PERSON. One or more individuals, labor unions, joint apprenticeship committees, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers or legal or commercial entity; the city or any of its agencies.
REAL ESTATE BROKER or REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON. An individual, whether licensed or not, who, for a fee, commission, salary or other valuable consideration, or who with the intention or expectation of receiving or collecting the same, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or leases real estate, or the improvements thereon, including options, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate such an activity; or who advertises or holds himself out as engaged in such activities; or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon a transfer of real estate; or who is engaged in the business of charging an advance fee or contracting for collection of a fee in connection with a contract whereby he or she undertakes to promote the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of real estate through its listing in a publication issued primarily for such purpose; or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
REAL PROPERTY. Buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, cooperatives, condominiums and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal.
(Ord. 6-71, passed 3-2-1971)