Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in this chapter:
(a) "Commercial housing" means housing accommodations held or offered for sale or rent by a real estate broker, salesman or agent, or by any other person pursuant to authorization of the owner, or by the owner himself or herself, or by legal representatives, but shall not include any personal residence offered for rent by the owner or lessee thereof or by his or her broker, salesman, agent or employee.
(b) "Commission" means the Commission of Human Relations.
(c) "Discriminate" and "discrimination" mean any difference in treatment based on race, color, religion, ancestry, sex, national origin or place of birth.
(c) "Employee" does not include any individual employed in agriculture or in the domestic service of any person, any individual who, as a part of his or her employment, resides in the personal residence of the employer, or any individual employed by such individual's parents, spouse or child.
(d) "Employer" means any person who employs four or more persons within the City, including the City, but, except as hereinafter provided, not including religious, fraternal, charitable or sectarian corporations or associations, except such corporations or associations supported in whole or in part by governmental appropriations. "Employer," with respect to discriminatory practices based on race, color, age, sex or national origin, includes religious, fraternal, charitable and sectarian corporations and associations employing four or more persons within the City.
(e) "Employment" does not include the employment of individuals in domestic service.
(f) "Employment agency" means any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure, recruit, refer or place employees.
(g) "Housing accommodation" means a building, structure or portion thereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as a home, residence or sleeping place by a person, by a family or by a group of persons living together, or a parcel of real property or a lot available for the construction of a housing accommodation.
(h) "Labor organization" means any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or dealing with employers concerning grievances and terms or conditions of employment, or of other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment.
(i) "Lending institution" means any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or person regularly engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans.
(j) "Owner" means the owner, co-owner, lessee, sublessee, mortgagee, assignee, manager, agent or other person having an equitable or security interest in any housing accommodation, including the City.
(k) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, labor organization or other organization or association, including one acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, whether appointed by a court or otherwise. "Person," as applied to partnerships or other organizations or associations, includes their members, and as applied to corporations, includes their officers.
(l) "Personal residence" means a building or structure containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by not more than two individuals, two groups or two families living independently of each other and used by the owner or lessee thereof as a bona fide residence for himself or herself and any members of his or her family forming his or her household.
(m) "Public accommodation, resort, recreation or amusement" means any place, business or activity which is open to, accepts or solicits the patronage of the general public or offers goods, services or recreation to the general public.
(n) "Real estate broker" means any natural person, partnership, corporation or other association which, for a fee or other valuable consideration, manages, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or negotiates, or offers or attempts to negotiate, the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of the real property of another, or holds himself or herself or itself out as engaged in the business of managing, selling, purchasing, exchanging or renting the real property of another, or collects rent for the use of the real property of another, and includes real estate salesmen or agents or any person employed by a real estate broker to perform or to assist in the performance of his or her business.
(Ord. 4174. Passed 1-23-80.)