727.03 EXEMPTIONS.

   The provisions of this chapter shall not:

   (a)    Prohibit a religious organization, association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society, from limiting the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference to such persons, unless membership in such religion is restricted on account of race, color, or national origin. Nor shall anything in this chapter prohibit a private club not in fact open to the public, which as an incident to its primary purpose or purposes provides lodgings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, from limiting the rental or occupancy of such lodgings to its members or from giving preference to its members provided such club does not discriminate in its membership policies on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, handicap or national origin.

   (b)    Require any person selling or renting property to modify such property in any way or to exercise a higher degree of care for a person having a handicap, nor shall this chapter be construed to relieve any handicapped person of any obligation generally imposed on all persons regardless of handicap in a written lease, rental agreement, or contract of purchase or sale, or to forbid distinctions based on the inability to fulfill the terms and conditions, including financial obligations, of the lease, agreement or contract.

   (c)    Prohibit restricting the sale or rental of a dwelling on the basis of handicap when such a dwelling is authorized, approved, financed or subsidized in whole or in part for the benefit of persons of a handicap by a unit of State, local or Federal government.
(Ord. 1986-61. Passed 9-17-86.)