(A) It is a prohibited act for any person to do any of the following:
(1) To discriminate against any person in the sale, lease, rental or other transfer of interest in housing.
(2) To discriminate in the extension of loans, credit, insurance or other services relating to the transfer of interest in housing.
(3) To print or circulate, or cause to be printed or circulated, any publication, or to use any form of application, or to make any inquiry in connection with prospective sales, leases, rentals or other transfers of interest in housing, or the extension of credit, loans, insurance or other services relating to the transfer of interest in housing, which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination, or expresses any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination.
(4) To refuse to receive or transmit a bona fide offer to sell, purchase, exchange, rent or lease any housing from or to a person because of his/her sex, race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin.
(5) To refuse to negotiate for the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of any housing to a person because of his/her sex, race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin.
(6) To represent to a person that any housing is not available for inspection, sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease when in fact it is so available, or to refuse to permit a person to inspect any housing because of his/her sex, race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin.
(7) For any person to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any of the acts forbidden under this section, or to attempt to do so.
(8) For any person to go upon the premises of another, for the purpose of abusing the occupant thereof, by the use of language or conduct which reflects unfavorably on the occupant’s sex, color, religion, ancestry or national origin.
(B) Division (A)(8) shall not be a violation of the town code, unless and until the Town Attorney has sent a prior written notice to the person charged with going upon the property of another and committing the above described acts, the notice advising the offending party that he/she is unwelcome on the occupant’s property, and that he/she may be charged under this section if he/she, after receipt of the notice, commits acts in violation of this section.
(C) Division (B) of this section does not preclude the offending party from being charged with a violation of any offense that he/she might have committed, which is not covered herein merely because the offending party did not receive written notice.
(`82 Code, § 10-2-4) (Ord. 271, passed 3-13-86; Am. Ord. 858, passed 11-6-14; Am. Res. 2803, passed 11-6-14) Penalty, see § 10.99