In connection with any of the transactions set forth in this section which affect any housing accommodation on the open market, or in connection with any public sale, purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodation, it shall be unlawful with the Town for a person, owner, financial institution, real estate broker or real estate salesperson, or any representative of the above to:
(A) Refuse to sell, purchase, rent or lease, or deny to or withhold any housing accommodation from a person because of his or her race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex or place of birth;
(B) To discriminate against a person in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodation, or in the furnishing of facilities of services in connection therewith;
(C) To refuse to receive or transmit a bona fide offer to sell, purchase, rent or lease any housing accommodation from or to a person because of his or her race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex or place of birth;
(D) To refuse to negotiate for the sale, purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodation to a person because of his or her race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex or place of birth;
(E) To represent to a person that any housing accommodation is not available for inspection, sale, purchase, rental or lease when in fact it is so available, or to refuse to permit a person to inspect any housing accommodation, because of his or her race, color religion, or national origin, sex or place of birth;
(F) To make, publish, print, circulate, post or mail, or cause to be made, published, printed, circulated, posted or mailed, any notice, statement or advertisement, or to announce a policy, or to sign or to use a form of application for the sale, purchase, rental, lease or financing of any housing accommodation, or to make a record of inquiry in connection with the prospective sale, purchase, rental, lease of financing of any housing accommodation, or to make a record of inquiry in connection with the prospective sale, purchase, rental, lease or financing of any housing accommodation, which indicates any discrimination or any intent to make a discrimination;
(G) To offer, solicit, accept or use a listing of any housing accommodation for sale, purchase, rental or lease with the understanding that a person may be subjected to discrimination in connection with such sale, purchase, rental or lease, or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith;
(H) Induce directly or indirectly, attempt to induce directly or indirectly, the sale, purchase, rental or lease, or the listing for any of the above, of any housing accommodation by representing that the presence or anticipated presence of persons of any particular race, color, religion, sex or national origin or place of birth in the area to be affected by such sale, purchase, rental or lease will or may result in either:
(1) The lowering of property values in the area;
(2) An increase in criminal or antisocial behavior in the area; or
(3) A decline in the quality of schools serving the area.
(I) To make any misrepresentations concerning the listing for sale, purchase, rental or lease, or the anticipated listing for any of the above, or the sale, purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodation in any area in the Town of Walkerton for the purpose of including or attempting to induce any such listing or any of the above transactions;
(J) To engage in, or hire to be done, or to conspire with others to commit acts or activities of any nature, the purpose of which is to coerce, cause panic, incite unrest or create or play upon fear, with the purpose of either discouraging or inducing, or attempting to induce, the sale, purchase, rental or lease, or attempting to induce, the sale, purchase, rental or lease, or the listing for any of the above, of any housing accommodation;
(K) To retaliate or discriminate in any manner against a person because he or she has opposed a practice declared unlawful by this subchapter, or because he or she has filed a complaint, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in any investigation, proceeding, hearing or conference under this subchapter;
(L) To aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce any person to engage in any of the practices prohibited by this subchapter; or to obstruct or prevent any person from complying with the provisions of this subchapter; or any order issued thereunder;
(M) By canvassing, to commit any unlawful practices prohibited by this subchapter;
(N) Otherwise to deny to, or withhold any housing accommodation from a person because of his or her race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex or place of birth;
(O) For any bank, building and loan association, insurance company or other corporation, association, firm or enterprise whose business consists in whole or in part, in the making of commercial real estate loans, to deny a loan or other financial assistance to a person applying therefore for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing or maintaining a dwelling, or to discriminate against him or her in the fixing of the amount, interest rate, duration or other terms or conditions of such loans or other financial assistance, because of the race, color, religion, sex or national origin of such person or of any person associated with him or her in connection with such loan or other financial assistance or the purposes of such loan or other financial assistance or of the present or prospective owners, lessees, tenants or occupants of the dwelling or dwellings in relation to which such loan or other financial assistance is to be made or given; or
(P) To deny any qualified person access to or membership or participation in any multiple-listing service, real estate brokers’ organization or other service, organization or facility relating to the business of selling or renting dwellings, or to discriminate against him or her in the terms or conditions of such access, membership or participation, on account of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
(2005 Code, § 46.02)