Section
95.01 Policy
95.02 Definitions
95.03 Unlawful practice
95.04 Discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
95.05 Discrimination in the financing of housing
95.06 Discrimination in the provision of brokerage services
95.07 Exemption
95.08 Administration
95.09 Education and conciliation
95.10 Interference, coercion, or intimidation
95.99 Penalty
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DWELLING. Any building, structures, or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as a residence by one or more families and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structures or portion thereof.
FAMILY. Includes a single individual.
PERSON. Includes 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.
TO RENT. To lease, to sublease, to let and otherwise to grant for a consideration the right to occupy premises owned by the occupant.
(Ord. 456, passed 7-2-85)
Subject to the provisions of division (B) below and § 95.07, the prohibitions against discrimination in the sale or rental of housing set forth in this section shall apply to:
(A) All dwellings except as exempted by division (B) below.
(1) Any single-family house sold or rented by an owner, provided that such private individual owner does not own more than three such single-family houses at any one time; provided further that 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 within any twenty-four month period; provided further, that such bona fide private individual owner does not own any interest in, nor is there owned or reserved on his 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, provided further that the sale or rental of any such single-family house shall be excepted from the application of this title only if such house is sold or rented without the use in any manner of the sales or rental facilities or the sales or rental services of any real estate broker, agent, or salesman, or of such facilities or services of any person in the business of selling or renting dwellings, or of any employee or agent of any such broker, agent, salesman, or person and without the publication, posting or mailing, after notice, of any advertisement or written notice in violation of § 95.04(C) of this chapter, but nothing in this provision shall prohibit the use or attorneys, escrow agents, abstractors, title companies, and other such professional assistance as necessary to perfect or transfer the title; or
(2) Rooms or units in dwellings containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by no more than four families living independently of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupied one of such living quarters as his residence.
(C) For the purposes of division (B), a person shall be deemed to be in the business of selling or renting dwellings if:
(1) He has, within the preceding 12 months participated as principal in three or more transactions involving the sale or rental of any dwelling or any interest therein, or
(2) He has, within the preceding 12 months, participated as agent, other than in the sale of his own personal residence, in providing sales or rental facilities or sales or rental services in two or more transactions involving the sale or rental of any dwelling or any interest therein, or
(3) He is the owner of any dwelling designed or intended for occupancy by, or occupied by, five or more families.
(Ord. 456, passed 7-2-85) Penalty, see § 95.99
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