This chapter shall not apply to:
(A) A religious organization, association or society, or a nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association or society, which limits the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which it owns or operates, for other than noncommercial purposes, to persons of the same religion or which gives preference to such persons, unless membership in such a religion is restricted on account of race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex or place of birth;
(B) A private club not open to the public, which club, as an incident to its primary purpose, provides lodgings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose and limits the rental or occupancy of such lodgings to its members or gives preference to its members;
(C) Any single-family house sold or rented by a private individual owner, provided that:
(1) Such owner does not own more than three such single-family houses at any one time.
(2) In the case of the sale of any such single-family house by a private individual owner not residing in such house at the time of such sale or who was not the most recent resident of such house prior to such sale, the exemption granted by this subsection shall apply only with respect to one such sale in any 24-month period.
(3) Such bona fide owner does not own any interest in, nor is there owned or served on his or her behalf, under any express or voluntary agreement, title to or any right to all or a portion of the proceeds from the sale or rental of, more than three such single-family houses at any one time.
(4) The sale or rental of any such single-family house shall be excepted from the application of this chapter only if such house is sold or rented:
(a) Without the use in any manner of the sales or rental facilities or the sales or rental services of a real estate broker, agent or salesman, or of such facilities or services of a person in the business of selling or renting dwellings, or of an employee or agent of any such broker, agent, salesman or person; and
(b) Without the publication, posting or mailing, after notice, of any advertisement or written notice in violation of the provisions of 42 USC 3604(c), or of § 92.03 of this code. However, nothing in this provision shall prohibit the use of attorneys, escrow agents, abstractors, title companies and other such professional assistance as is necessary to perfect or transfer the title.
(D) Rooms or units in dwellings containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by not more than four families living independently of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupies one of the living quarters as his or her residence.
(`94 Code, § 515.05) (Ord. 26-81, passed 8-27-81)