Except as may be permitted by law because of a bona fide policy, regulation, law, or rule, it shall be an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for any person or entity within the City of Lima corporate limits to:
(a) Refuse to sell, transfer, assign, rent, lease, sublease, finance, or negotiate after the making of a bona fide offer, or otherwise deny or make unavailable, a property within the City of Lima corporate limits to any person, because of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry;
(b) Represent to any person that a property within the City of Lima corporate limits is not available for sale, rental, inspection, purchase, transfer, assignment, lease, or sublease, when, in fact, it is available, because of that person's race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry;
(c) Discriminate against any person in making available such a transaction, or in the terms or conditions of such a transaction, if the person's business includes engaging in residential real estate-related transactions within the City of Lima corporate limits, because of that person's race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry;
(d) Discriminate against any person in the terms or conditions of selling, renting, transferring, assigning, brokering, leasing or subleasing any property within the City of Lima corporate limits, or in furnishing facilities, services or privileges in connection with the ownership, occupancy or use of any property within the City of Lima corporate limits because of that person's race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry;
(e) Refuse to consider the combined income of both spouses for the purpose of extending mortgage credit to a married couple or either member because of their race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry;
(f) Print, publish or circulate, or cause to be printed, published or circulated, any statement or advertisement, or make or cause to be made any written or oral statement, relating to the sale, transfer, assignment, rental, lease, sublease or acquisition of any property or the loan of money, whether or not secured by mortgage or otherwise, for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair or maintenance of a property within the City of Lima corporate limits, which indicates any preference, limitation, specification or discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, specification or discrimination;
(g) Include in any sale, transfer, rental, lease or sublease of a property within the City of Lima corporate limits any restrictive covenant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry, or honor or exercise, or attempt to honor or exercise any restrictive covenant;
(h) Nothing in this section shall bar any religious or denominational institution or organization, or any nonprofit charitable or educational organization that is operated, supervised, or controlled by or in connection with a religious organization, from limiting the sale, rental, or occupancy of housing accommodations that it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference in the sale, rental, or occupancy of such housing accommodations to persons of the same religion, unless membership in the religion is restricted on account of race, color, or national origin;
(i) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the modification of existing facilities or the construction of new or additional facilities.
(Ord. 235-20. Passed 11-23-20; Ord. 267-20. Passed 12-21-20.)