As used in this chapter:
(a) “Compliance Officer” means the individual designated as having responsibility for oversight and enforcement of this chapter.
(b) “Discrimination,” “discriminating” or “discriminate” means to render any difference in treatment to any person in the sale, lease, rental or financing of a dwelling or housing unit because of a person's race, color, creed, sex, sexual preference, marital status, religious belief, national origin, age or handicap.
(c) “Housing” includes any building, facility or structure or portion thereof which is used or occupied or is intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, groups or families and any vacant land offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of such building, facility or structure.
(d) “Lending institution” means any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or any other person or organization regularly engaged in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans.
(e) “Person” means 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.
(f) “Real estate agent” includes any real estate broker, real estate salesperson or an agent thereof, or any other person, partnership, association or corporation who or which, for consideration sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of real property or holds himself or herself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting or otherwise transferring any interest in real property.
(g) “Statutory definition” includes any term defined in R.C. Chapter 5321, including but not limited to terms such as “landlord” and “tenant.” If any definition in this chapter of the Village Codified Ordinances expressly conflicts with a statutory definition, the statutory definition shall prevail pursuant to R.C. § 5321.19 effective as of September 17, 1991 and as hereafter amended.
(Ord. 79-15. Passed 5-21-79; Ord. 2021-18. Passed 9-20-21.)