(a) No person who receives or expects to receive pecuniary gain from the sale or rental of housing accommodations shall:
(1) Influence or attempt to influence any other person who purports or represents himself or herself to be a prospective purchaser, occupant or tenant of housing accommodations by referring to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, familial status, handicap or ancestry of the occupants or prospective occupants of other housing accommodations in the neighborhood;
(2) Influence or attempt to influence, by any words, acts or failure to act, any person who purports or represents himself or herself to be a prospective seller, purchaser, occupant, landlord or tenant of housing accommodations, in connection with the sale or rental of housing accommodations, so as to promote or tend to promote the continuance or maintenance of segregated housing or so as to retard, obstruct or discourage integrated housing on or in any street, block or neighborhood; or
(3) Discriminate against any person who purports or represents himself or herself to be a prospective seller, purchaser, occupant, landlord or tenant of housing accommodations by any influence, suggestion, act or failure to act, or accord any differential treatment among such persons, in connection with the sale or rental of housing accommodations or in the furnishing of information, services or facilities relative thereto, because of the race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, familial status, handicap or national origin of any person.
(b) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for a first offense and a misdemeanor of the third degree for each subsequent offense. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 2001-210. Passed 11-5-01.)