1494.16   PROHIBITIONS AGAINST REAL ESTATE STEERING.
   No person who receives or expects to receive pecuniary gain from the sale or rental of housing accommodations shall:
   (a)   Influence or attempt to influence any other person who purports or represents himself or herself to be a prospective purchaser, occupant or tenant of housing accommodations to refrain from purchasing or renting housing accommodations by referring to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, ethnic group, Vietnam-era or disabled veteran status, familial status, marital status or ancestry, of occupants or prospective occupants of other housing accommodations in the neighborhood;
   (b)   Influence or attempt to influence, by any words, acts, or failure to act any person who purports or represents himself to be a prospective seller, purchaser, occupant, landlord or tenant of housing accommodations, in connection with the sale or rental of housing accommodations, so as to promote or tend to promote the continuance or maintenance of segregated housing or so as to retard, obstruct or discourage integrated housing on or in any street, block or neighborhood;
   (c)   Discriminate against any person who purports or represents himself to be a prospective seller, purchaser, occupant, landlord or tenant of housing accommodations by any influence, suggestion, act or failure to act, or accord any differential treatment among such persons, in connection with the sale or rental of housing accommodations or in the furnishing of information, services, or facilities relative thereto because of the race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, ethnic group, Vietnam-era and disabled veteran status, familial status, marital status or ancestry of any person.
(Ord. 2009-06. Passed 1-14-09.)