For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DISCRIMINATE
or
DISCRIMINATION.
To make, directly or indirectly, any distinction with respect to any person or persons based on sex, race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION.
Any person, as defined herein, engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing losses.
HOUSING.
(1) Any parcel of real property or lands, or any interest therein, whether contiguous or noncontiguous, located in the town, used for the building or the placing of one or more housing or rooming units owned by, or otherwise subject to the control of, one or more persons.
(2) Any real property, or any interest therein, located in the town.
(3) Any single-family dwelling or multiple-family dwelling, trailer house or trailer space, or any portion thereof, including a housing unit or a rooming unit, or any interest therein, located in the town, which is used or occupied, or intended, arranged, assigned or designated to be used or occupied, as the home, homesite, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons.
(4) A single room, suite of rooms or apartment, with or without cooking and kitchen facilities, occupied, or intended for occupancy as living quarters, by a person, by a family or by a group of persons living together.
OWNER.
A lessee, sublessee, co-tenant, assignee, managing agent or other person having the right of ownership or possession, or the right to sell, rent or lease any housing.
PERSON.
An individual and a group of any one or more persons such as, but not limited to, labor unions, joint apprenticeship committees, partnerships, associations, corporations, unincorporated organizations, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, legal representatives, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, any individuals acting in a financial or representative capacity, either appointed by a court or otherwise, the town or any of its agencies, and any other legal governmental or commercial entity, as well as a natural person or persons. The term
PERSONS
, when applied to any of the foregoing, includes members, representatives, officers and directors, agents and employees.
REAL ESTATE BROKER
or
REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON.
An individual, whether licensed or not, who, for a fee, commission, salary or for other valuable consideration, or who with the intention or expectation of receiving or collecting same, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents or leases any housing accommodation, including options thereupon, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate such activities; or who advertises or holds himself/herself out as engaged in such activities; or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan, secured by a mortgage or other encumbrance, upon transfer to any housing accommodation; or who is engaged in the business or charging an advance fee or contracting for collection of a fee in connection with a contract whereby he/she undertakes to promote the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of any housing accommodation through its listing in a publication issued primarily for such purpose; or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
(`82 Code, § 10-2-2) (Ord. 271, passed 3-13-86; Am. Ord. 858, passed 11-6-14; Am. Res. 2803, passed 11-6-14)