10.48.010 Definitions.
Terms as used in this chapter, unless additional meaning clearly appears from the context, shall have the following meanings:
“Commission” means the fair housing practices commission.
“Disability” means, with respect to a person:
A. A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of a person’s major life activities;
B. A record of such impairment; or
C. Being regarded as having such an impairment.
Such term does not include current, illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance.
“Dwelling unit” includes a suite of rooms designed, intended, or used for occupancy by one family, person, or persons, containing space for living, sleeping, and preparation of food, and containing toilet and bathing facilities.
“Familial status” means one or more individuals (who have not attained the age of 18 years) being domiciled with:
A. A parent or another person having legal custody of such individual(s); or
B. The designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such person or other person.
The protections afforded against discrimination on the basis of familial status shall apply to any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody or any individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.
“Housing accommodations” includes any dwelling, or dwelling units, rooming units, roominghouse, lot or parcel of land in the city which is used, intended to be used, or arranged or designed to be used as, or improved with, a residential structure for one or more human beings.
“Lender” includes any bank, insurance company, savings or building and loan association, credit union, trust company, mortgage company, or other person engaged wholly or partly in the business of lending money for the financing or acquisition, construction, repair, or maintenance of a housing accommodation.
“Occupant” includes any person who has established residence or has the right to occupancy of a housing accommodation.
“Owners” includes persons who own, lease, sublease, rent, operate, manage, have charge of, control, or have the right of ownership, possession, management, charge, or control of the housing accommodation on their own behalf or on behalf of another.
“Person” includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, or other organizations, trade or professional associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustee, trustees in bankruptcy, and receivers; it includes owners, occupants, real estate brokers, agents, salesmen, employees, and tenders as defined under “Familial status.”
“Person aggrieved” means any person against whom any alleged unfair housing practice has been committed.
“Prospective borrower” includes any person who seeks to borrow money to finance the acquisition, construction, repair, or maintenance of a housing accommodation.
“Prospective occupant” includes any person who seeks to purchase, lease, sublease, or rent a housing accommodation.
“Real estate agent, salesman, or employees” includes any person employed by or associated with a real estate broker to perform or assist in the performance of any or all of the functions of a real estate broker.
“Real estate broker” includes any person who for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, lists for sale, sells, purchases, exchanges, leases or subleases, rents, or negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange, lease, sublease, or rental of a housing accommodation of another, or who holds himself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, listing, leasing, subleasing, or renting a housing accommodation of another, or who collects the rental for the use of a housing accommodation of another.
“Respondent” means any person who is alleged to have committed an unfair housing practice.
“Unfair housing practice” means any act prohibited by this chapter. [Ord. 1998-08-067 § 3; Ord. 8573 § 12(A), 1977].