515.02 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   (a)   "Board" means the Fair Housing Board created by this chapter.

   (b)   "Discrimination," "discriminating," or "discriminate" means 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, age, or handicap.

   (c)   "Housing" means 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 thereof of such building, facility, or structure.

   (d)   "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 of loans.

   (e)   "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.

   (f)   "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.
(1978 Code 100.02)