This chapter shall not apply to:
(A) A religious organization, association or society, or any non-profit institution or organization operating, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association or society, which limits the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which it owns or operates for other than commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or which gives preference to those persons, unless membership in that religion is restricted on account of race, color, sex or national origin;
(B) 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, and which limits the rental or occupancy of those lodgings to its members or gives preference to its members;
(C) 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 those living quarters as his or her residence; or
(D) Any single-family house sold or rented by an owner; provided that, the private individual owner does not own more than three such single-family houses at any one time; provided further that, in the case of the sale of any single-family house by a private individual owner not residing in that house at the time of prior to the sale, the exemption granted by this division (D) shall apply only with respect to one such sale within any 24-month period; provided further that, the bona fide private individual owner does not own any interest in, nor is there owned or reserved on his or her behalf, under any express or voluntary agreement, title to or any right to all or a portion of the proceeds from the sale or rental of more than three single-family houses at any one time; and, provided further, the sale or rental of any single- family house shall be excepted from the application of this chapter only if that house is sold or rented:
(1) Without the use in any manner of the sales or rental facilities or the sales or rental services of any real estate broker, agent or salesperson, or of these types of facilities or services of any person in the business of selling or renting dwellings, or of any employee or agent of any such broker, agent, salesperson or person; and
(2) Without the publication, posting or mailing, after notice, of any advertisement or written notice in violation of the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 3604(c) or of § 93.04 of this chapter; but nothing in this provision shall prohibit the use of attorneys, escrow agents, abstractors, title companies and other professional assistance as necessary to perfect or transfer the title.
(Ord. passed 10-1-1979) Penalty, see § 93.99