As used in this chapter:
(a) “Discrimination,” “discriminating” and “discriminate” mean to render any difference in treatment to any person in the sale, lease, rental or financing of a dwelling or housing unit because of a person's race, color, creed, sex, marital status, religious belief, national origin or handicap.
(b) “Fair Housing Center” means the Montgomery County Fair Housing Center with offices at 117 S. Main Street, Dayton, Ohio.
(c) “Housing” includes any building, facility or structure or portion thereof which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, groups or families and any vacant land offered for sale or lease for the construction or location of such building, facility or structure.
(d) “Lending institution” means any bank, building and loan association, savings and loan association, insurance company or other person whose business consists in whole or in part of the lending of money or guaranteeing of loans.
(e) “Person” means one or more individuals, corporations, associations, firms, enterprises, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and fiduciaries.
(f) “Real estate agent” includes any real estate salesman or an agent thereof or any other person, partnership, association or corporation, who or which, for consideration, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, negotiates, or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental, of real property, or holds himself or herself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or otherwise transferring any interest in real property.
(Ord. 2878. Passed 7-3-79.)