139.03 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

         (a)   Board. The Fair Housing Board created by this article.

   (b)   Discrimination, discriminating or discriminate. To render any differences 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.

   (c)   Housing. 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 thereon of any such building, facility or structure.

   (d)   Lending institution. Any bank, building and loan association, savings and loan association, insurance company or other person whose business consists, in whole or in part, in the lending of money or guaranteeing loans.

   (e)   Person. One or more individuals, corporations , partnerships, associations, firms or enterprises, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies , joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustee receivers and fiduciaries.

   (f)   Real estate agent. Any real estate broker, real estate salesman or an agent thereof, or any other person 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.
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