It is unlawful discriminatory practice:
(A) For an owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee or managing agent of, or other person having the right to sell, rent or lease any real property, or any agent of any of these:
(1) To refuse to sell, rent or lease or offer for sale, rental or lease any real property to any person or group of persons or to negotiate for the sale, rental or lease of any real property to any person or group of persons because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability, or represent that real property is not available for inspection, sale, rental or lease when in fact it is so available or otherwise deny or withhold any real property or any facilities of real property to or from any person or group of persons because of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, religion, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability;
(2) To discriminate against any person or group of persons because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, rental or lease of any real property or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith; or
(3) In any transaction involving real property, to print, circulate or post or cause to be printed, circulated or posted any advertisement or sign, or use any form of application for the purchase, rental or lease of real property, or make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of real property which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination as to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability or any intent to make any limitation, specification or discrimination.
(B) For a person, bank, banking organization, mortgage company, insurance company or other financial institution or lender to whom application is made for financial assistance for the purchase, lease, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair or maintenance of any real property, or any agent or employee thereof:
(1) To discriminate against any person or group of persons because of race, color, creed, national origin, sex, marital status, religion, status with regard to public assistance or disability of the person or group of persons or of the prospective occupants or tenants of the real property in the granting, withholding, extending, modifying or renewing, or in the rates, terms, conditions or privileges of any such financial assistance or in the extension of services in connection therewith;
(2) To use any form of application for the financial assistance or make any record of inquiry in connection with application for the financial assistance which expresses directly or indirectly any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability or any intent to make any limitation, specification or discrimination; or
(3) To discriminate against any person or group of persons who desire to purchase, lease, acquire, construct, rehabilitate, repair or maintain real property in a specific urban or rural area or any part thereof solely because of the social, economic or environmental conditions of the area in the granting, withholding, extending, modifying or renewing, or in the rates, terms, conditions or privileges of any such financial assistance, or in the extension of services in connection therewith.
(C) For any real estate broker or real estate salesperson, for the purpose of inducing a real property transaction from which the person, his or her firm or any of its members may benefit financially to represent that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition with respect to race, religion, creed, color, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability of the owners or occupants in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located, and to represent, directly or indirectly, that this change will or may result in undesirable consequences in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is located, including, but not limited to, the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools or other public facilities.
(D) The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) The rental of a portion of a dwelling containing accommodations for two families, one of which is occupied by the owner; or
(2) The rental, by an owner or occupier of a one-family accommodation in which he or she resides, of a room or rooms in the accommodation to another person or person if the discrimination is by sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or disability. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any person or group of persons selling, renting or leasing property to modify the property in any way, or exercise a higher degree of care for a person having a disability than for a person who does not have a disability; nor shall this section 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 on the inability to fulfill the terms and conditions, including financial obligations, of the lease.
(Prior Code, § 2.74) (Ord. 44, Third Series, effective 3-24-1988)