For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(a) "Age" means ages forty through sixty-five, both inclusive.
(b) "Bona fide purchaser" means any occupant, prospective occupant, lessee, prospective lessee, buyer or prospective buyer, borrower or prospective borrower, renter or prospective renter, who, in good faith, acts to provide himself or his family with adequate housing accommodations or real property.
(c) "Commission" means the City Human Rights Commission.
(d) "Complainant" means one or more individuals, partnerships, organizations and any other organized groups of persons charging that they have been aggrieved by discriminatory practices.
(e) “Director” means the Executive Director of the City Human Rights Commission.
(f) “Discriminate” means to exclude from or fail to extend to a person equal opportunities because of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age or blindness; to separate or segregate.
(g) "Employee" means no individual employed by his parents, spouse or child or in the domestic service of any person.
(h) "Employer" means the City or any political or civil subdivision thereof, and any person employing ten or more persons within the City; provided, that such term shall not be taken, understood or construed to include a private club.
(i) "Employment agency" means any person undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure, recruit, refer or place employees.
(j) “Housing accommodation” means any building or portion thereof within the City which is used or intended for use as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, but does not include the rental of one, two, three or four rooms in a single-family private dwelling in which the owner or members of his family reside.
(k) "Labor organization" means any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or for dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or for other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment.
(l) “Owner” means the owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee, manager, agent or other person, firm or corporation having the right to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation or real property within the City or any agent of any of these.
(m) "Person" means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, labor organizations, cooperatives, legal representatives, trustee, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and other organized groups of persons.
(n) “Place of public accommodations” means any establishment or person, as defined herein, including the City or any political or civil subdivision thereof, which offers its services, goods, facilities or accommodations to the general public, but shall not include any accommodations which are in their nature private.
(o) “Real estate broker” means a person, firm or corporation who, for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, or by reason of a promise or reasonable expectation/hereof, lists for sale, sells, exchanges, buys or rents, or offers or attempts to negotiate a sale, exchange, purchase, or rental of real property or housing accommodations or an interest therein, or collects or offers or attempts to collect rent for the use of real property or housing accommodations or solicits for a prospective purchaser or assists or directs in the procuring of prospects or the negotiation or closing of any transaction which does or is contemplated to result in the sale, exchange, leasing, renting or auctioning of any real property or housing accommodations; or negotiates, offers or attempts or agrees to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon or transfer of any real property or housing accommodations for others; or any person who, for pecuniary gain or expectation of pecuniary gain, conducts a private or public competitive sale of lands or any interest in lands. In the sale of lots, the term "real estate broker" shall also include any person, partnership, association or corporation employed by or on behalf of the owner of lots or other parcels of real property, at a stated salary, or upon a commission, or upon a salary and commission, or otherwise, to sell such real property, or any parts thereof, in lots or other parcels, and who shall sell or exchange, or offer or attempt or agree to negotiate the sale or exchange of any such lot or parcel of real property.
(p) “Real estate salesman” means any person who, for compensation, valuable consideration or commission, or other thing of value or by reason of a promise or reasonable expectation thereof is employed by and operates under the supervision of a real estate broker to sell or offer to sell, buy or offer to buy or negotiate the purchase, sale or exchange of real property or housing accommodation; offers or attempts to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by a mortgage or other encumbrances upon or transfer of real property or housing accommodations; to lease or rent, or offer to lease or rent any real property or housing accommodations for others; or to collect rents for the use of real property or housing accommodations; or to solicit for prospective purchasers or lessees of real property or housing accommodations; or who is employed by a licensed real estate broker to sell or offer to sell lots or other parcels of real property or housing accommodations, at a stated salary, or upon a commission, or upon a salary and commission, or otherwise to sell real property, or any parts thereof, in lots or other parcels.
(q) “Real property” means real estate, lands, leaseholds, commercial or industrial buildings, within the City and any vacant land within the City offered for sale or rent on which the construction of a housing accommodation, commercial or industrial building is intended.
(r) “Unlawful discriminatory practices” means only those practices specified in Section 159.08.
(Ord. 78-25. Passed 7-24-78.)