9.10.040 Prohibited acts.
It shall be unlawful:
(A) For any person, including, but not limited to, owners, lessees, agents, real estate brokers, real estate salespersons, trustees, mortgagees, financial institutions, title companies or insurance companies:
(1) To discriminate against any person because of sex, race, age, color, religion, ancestry or national origin in the sale, lease, rental or other transfer of interest in housing;
(2) To so discriminate in the extension of loans, credit, insurance or other services relating to the transfer of interest in housing; or
(3) To print or circulate, or cause to be printed or circulated, any publications, or to use any form of application or to make inquiry in connection with prospective sales, leases, rentals or other transfers of interest in housing, or the extension of credit, loans, insurance or other services relating to the transfer of interest in housing, which expresses directly or indirectly any limitation, specification or discrimination as to sex, race, age, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, or expresses any intent to any limitation, specification or discrimination;
(B) To refuse to receive or transmit a bona fide offer to sell, purchase, exchange, rent or lease any housing from or to a person because of his or her sex, race, age, color, religion, ancestry, or national origin;
(C) To refuse to negotiate for the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease of any housing to a person because of his or her sex, race, age, color, religion, ancestry, or national origin;
(D) To represent to a person that any housing is not available for inspection, sale, purchase, exchange, rental or lease when in fact it is so available, or to refuse to permit a person to inspect any housing because of his or her sex, race, age, color, religion, ancestry, or national origin;
(E) For any person to aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any of the acts forbidden under this section or to attempt to do so;
(F) For any person to go upon the premises of another for the purpose of abusing the occupants thereof by the use of language or conduct which reflects unfavorably on the occupants’ sex, age, color, religion, ancestry, national origin;
(G) Subsection (F) of this section shall not be a violation of the City Code unless and until the City Attorney or his or her duly appointed agent has sent a prior written notice to the person charged with going upon the property of another and committing the above described acts, the notice advising the offending party that he or she is unwelcome on the occupant’s property and that he or she may be charged under this subsection if he or she, after receipt of the notice, commits acts which are in violation of this subsection; and
(H) This section does not preclude the offending party from being charged with a violation of any offense that he or she might have committed not covered herein merely because the offending party did not receive written notice. (Ord. 85 § 4, passed 6-27-1990. Code 2012 § 96.04.)