As used in this article, the following terms shall have these meanings:
(a) "Real estate agent" includes any real estate broker, real estate salesman or an agent thereof, or any other person, partnership, association or corporation who for consideration sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, negotiates, offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of real property or holds himself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or otherwise transferring any interest in real property.
(b) "Board" means the Fair Housing Board created by this article.
(c) "Discrimination", "discriminating" or "discriminate" means to exclude from or fail or refuse to extend to a person equal opportunities because of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status or handicap, and includes to separate or segregate.
(d) "Housing" includes any building, facility, 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 thereof of such building, facility or structure. Nothing contained in this definition or this article shall apply to the renter of a room or rooms in a rooming house occupied by the owner as a place of residence and containing no more than four rented rooms, or rooms to be rented.
(e) "Lending institution" means any bank, building and loan association, savings and loan association, insurance company or other persons whose business consists in whole or in part in the lending of money or guaranteeing loans.
(f) "Person" means one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, firms or enterprises, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and fiduciaries.
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