As used in this chapter:
(a) Board means the Fair Housing Board established by this chapter.
(b) Discrimination, discriminating or discriminate means to render any difference 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, age or handicap.
(c) Housing means 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 such building, facility or structure.
(d) Lending institution means any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or any other person or organization regularly engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans.
(e) Minority means American Indians, Spanish Americans, Blacks, Orientals and Aleuts.
(f) Person means one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and fiduciaries.
(g) Real estate agent means any real estate broker, real estate salesperson or an agent thereof, or any other person, partnership, association or corporation, who or which, for consideration, sells, purchases, exchanges or rents, or negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of, real property, or holds himself, herself or itself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or otherwise transferring any interest in real property.
(Ord. 1979-26. Passed 3-20-79.)