(A) The Fair Housing Board shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose and provisions of this ordinance.
(B) Any person aggrieved in any manner by any violation of any provision of this ordinance may file a written complaint setting forth his grievance with the Fair Housing Board. Such complaint must be filed within 90 days of the commission of the alleged violation and shall state the name and address of the complainant and of the person against whom the complaint is brought, and shall also state the facts surrounding the alleged violation.
(C) The Fair Housing Board shall investigate every such complaint thus filed. If the Fair Housing Board determines that the party complained against has not engaged in any unlawful practice, it shall state its findings of fact in writing and dismiss the complaint. If the Fair Housing Board determines, after such investigation, that probable cause for the complaint exists, the Fair Housing Board shall set a date for a conciliation hearing. At such hearing, the Fair Housing Board shall interview the complainant and the person or persons against whom the complaint has been directed and shall attempt to resolve the complaint by all proper methods of conciliation and persuasion. If such attempts at conciliation are not successful within sixty days after the date of filing of the complaint, the Fair Housing Board shall then proceed promptly with a formal hearing of the complaint.
(D) Such formal hearing shall be conducted by the Fair Housing Board upon due and reasonable notice to all parties. The Fair Housing Board shall have full power to subpoena witnesses and pertinent documents, which power may be enforced by the Fair Housing Board by proper petition to any court of competent jurisdiction. The Fair Housing Board shall have power to administer oaths and to take sworn testimony. At the conclusion of the hearings, the Fair Housing Board shall render a written report and recommendations which shall be served by mail upon the complainant and the party complained against, No report shall be delayed more than sixty days after date of the issuance of notice for commencement of such formal hearing.
(E) If, during the course of any proceedings prescribed herein, the Fair Housing Board, on the basis of the evidence before it, concludes that a violation of this ordinance is imminent, it may relay such evidence to the City Council, together with its recommendation that the City Attorney be instructed to seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to prohibit such violation.
(Prior Code, Art. 2, § 2.9(VI))