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§ 93.01 DECLARATION OF POLICY.
   Discrimination with regard to housing on the basis of race, color, sex, creed, religion, marital status, national origin, status with regard to public assistance, disability or age adversely affects the health, welfare, peace and safety of a community. Persons subject to discrimination suffer depressed living conditions and create conditions which endanger the public peace and order. The public policy of the city is declared to be to foster equal opportunity for all persons to obtain decent, safe and sanitary housing without regard to race, color, sex, creed, religion, marital status, national origin, status with regard to public assistance, disability or age and strictly in accord with their individual merits as human beings. It is also the policy of the city to protect all persons from unfounded charges of discrimination.
(Ord. 350, passed 5-29-1979)
§ 93.02 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   DISABILITY. A mental or physical condition which constitutes a handicap.
   DISCRIMINATE or DISCRIMINATION. Includes segregate or separate.
   MARITAL STATUS. The standing, state or condition of one as single or a married person.
   STATUS WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. The condition of being a recipient of federal, state or local assistance including medical assistance or of being a tenant receiving federal, state or legal subsidies including rental assistance or rent supplements.
(Ord. 350, passed 5-29-1979)
§ 93.03 PROHIBITIVE ACTS IN REGARD TO HOUSING.
   It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice to do any act or omission designated as an unlawful discriminatory practice by M.S. § 363A.09, as it may be amended from time to time.
(Ord. 350, passed 5-29-1979) Penalty, see § 93.99
§ 93.04 EXEMPTIONS.
   The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:
   (A)   Rooms in a temporary or permanent residence home run by a non-profit organization if the discrimination is by sex;
   (B)   The rental by an owner or occupier of a one-family accommodation in which he or she resides or a room or rooms in the accommodation to another person or persons if the discrimination is by sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require any person or group of persons selling, renting or leasing property to modify the property in any way, to exercise a higher degree of care for a person having a disability than for a person that does not have a disability, nor shall this chapter be construed to relieve any person or persons of any obligations generally imposed on all persons regardless of any disability in a written lease, rental agreement or contract of purchase or sale or to forbid distinctions based upon the inability to fulfill the terms and conditions including financial obligations of the lease, agreement or contract; and
   (C)   Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any program, service, facility or privilege afforded to a person with a disability which is intended to habilitate, rehabilitate or accommodate that person. It is a defense to a complaint or an action brought under this chapter that the person bringing the complaint or action suffers from a disability which in the circumstances poses a serious threat to the health or safety of the disabled person or others. The burden of proving this defense is on the respondent.
(Ord. 350, passed 5-29-1979)
§ 93.05 AIDING, ABETTING AND OBSTRUCTION.
   It is an unfair discriminatory practice for any person:
   (A)   Intentionally to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce a person to engage in any of the practices forbidden by this chapter;
   (B)   Intentionally to attempt to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce a person to engage in any of the practices forbidden by this chapter; and
   (C)   To intentionally obstruct or prevent any person from complying with the provisions of this chapter or any order issued thereunder or to resist, prevent, impede or interfere with the Director of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority or his or her agents or employees in the performance of their duties under this chapter.
(Ord. 350, passed 5-29-1979)
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