HomeMy WebLinkAbout2801 ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE defining and pPohibiting unfaiP housing
pPactices in the sale and offePing fop sale, in the
Pental and offePing fop Pent and in the financing of
housing accommodations; defining offenses; and pPes-
cPibing penalties.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section~l. Declamation of.Polic~.
It is hemeby declared To be The policy of The
City of BfemePton in The exePcise of its police poweP for the
public safety, public health, and general welfaPe, fop the main-
tenance of business and good govePnment and fop the promotion of
the city's trade, conunefce and manufacturers to assure equal op-
poPtunity to all persons to live.in decent housing facilities
Pegafdless of face, color, Peligion, ancestPy oP national oPigin,
and to that end to prohibit discrimination in housing by any peP-
son, including leal estate brokers, Peal estate salesmen and agents,
ownePs of Peal pPoperty and lending institutions, to fo~waPd the
cause of bPothePhood, and to secure a reduction of all tensions and
discPiminations because of Pace, color, Peligion of national
gin.
Section 2. Definitions.
Definitions as used in this oPdinance, unless
additional meaning clearly appeals from the context, shall have the
meanings subscribed:
(1) "Housing Accommodations" shall include any dwelling,
dwelling unit, Pooming unit, looming house, lot of paPcel of land
in the City of BfemePton which is used, intended to be used,
afPanged oT designed to be used as, or improved with a residential
stPucture fop one of mole human beings.
(2) "Dwelling" includes any building containing one or mope
dwelling units.
(3) "Dwelling Unit" includes a suite of Pooms for occupancy
by one family containing space for living, sleeping, and pPeparation
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of food, and containing toilet and bathing facilities.
(~) "Rooming Unit" includes one or more rooms within a
dwelling unit or rooming house containing space for living and
sleeping.
($) "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships,
or other organizations, trade or professional associations, corpor-
ations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy and
receivers.
(6) "Owners" include persons who own, lease, sublease, rent,
operate, manage, have charge of, control, or have the right, of own-
ership, possession, management, charge, or control of the housing
accommodation, on their own behalf or on behalf of another.
(7) "Occupant" includes any person who has established resi-
dence or has the right to occupancy in a housing accommodation.
(8) "Prospective Occupant" includes any person who seeks to
purchase, lease, sublease or rent a housing accommodation.
(9) "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 holds
himself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, ex-
changing, listing, leasing, subleasing, or renting a housing accom-
modation of another, or collects the rental for the use of a
housing accommodation of another.
(10) "Real Estate Agent, Salesman, or Employee" includes any
person employed by or associated with a real estate broker to per-
form or assist in the performance of any or all of the functions of
a real estate broker.
~'(11) "Lender" includes any bank, insurance company, savings
or building and ~&n association, credit union, trust company, mort-
gage company, or other person engaged wholly or partly in the business
of lending money for the financing or acquisition, construction, re-
pair, or maintenance of a housing accommodation.
(12) "Pmospective Borrowem" includes any pemson who seeks to
bommow money to finance the acquisition, constr~ction, mepair, om
maintenance of a housing accommodation.
(13) "Unfair Housing Practice" means any act prohibited by
this ordinance.
Section 3. Unfair Housin~ P~actices as hereinafter defined in
the sale and offeming fom sale and in the rental and offeming fom
ment of housing accommodations amc contmary to the public peace,
health, safety and genemal welfame and are hereby pmohibited by the
City of Bmememton in the exemcise of its police powem.
Section 4. Unfaim Housig~ .Pmactice.s Forbidden.
(1) No owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee, real estate brokem,
meal estate salesman, managing agent of, or othem pemson having the
might to sell, rent, lease, sublease, assign, tmansfem, om otherwise
dispose of a housing accommodation shall mefuse to sell, ment, lease,
sublease, assign, tmansfem, or other-wise deny to, om withhold fmom
any person om gmoup of pemsons such housing accommodations, om segre-
gate the use thereof, or mepmesent that such housing accommodations
are not available fom inspection, when in fact they are so available,
or expel or evict an occupant from a housing accommodation because of
the race, eolom, religion, ancestmy om national omigin, of such per-
son or pemsons, or discriminate against om segregate any person be-
cause of his race, eolom, religion, ancestry om national omigin, in
the temms, conditions, om pmivileges of the sale, rental, lease, sub-
lease, assignment, tmansfem or othem disposition of any such housing
accommodations om in the fumnishing of facilities or services in
connection therewith.
(2) A real estate bmokem, agent, salesman, om employee shall
not, beck,se of mace, colom, meligion, ancestz~y, or national omigin
of an occupant, pumchasem~ prospective occupant, om pmospective pum-
chaserl
(a) Refuse om intentionally fail go list om discmiminate
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in listing a housing accommodation for sale, Tent, lease or sublease.
(b) Refuse oP intentionally fail to show to a pPospective
occupant the housing accommodation listed fop sale, Pental, lease
sublease.
(c) Refuse oP intentionally fail to accept and/oP trans-
mit to an owneP any Peasonable offeP to puPchase, lease, Tent or sub-
lease a housing accommodation.
(d) Otherwise discriminate against an occupant, pPospec-
rive occupant, puPchaser, or prospective purchaser of a housing ac-
commodation.
(3) No person, bank, banking oPganization, mortgage company,
insurance company, or other financial institution or lendeP, or any
agent or employee thereof, to whom application is made fop financial
assistance for the purchase, lease, acquisition, construction,
habilitation, PepaiP, oP maintenance of any housing accommodation
shall:
(a) Discriminate against any person or gPoup of pePsons
because of Pace, coloP, Peligion, ancestry, or national oPigin of
such pePson or group of pePsons or of the prospective occupants or
tenants of such Teal pPoperty in the granting, withholding, extending,
modifying, or Penewing, or in the rates, terms, conditions, or pti-
vileges of, any such financial assistance or in the extension of ser-
vices in connection thePewith~ or
(b) Use any form of application fop such financial assis-
tance, or make any PecoPd in inquiry in connection with application
for such financial assistance which expresses, directly or indirectly,
any limitation, specification, oP discPimination, on the ground of
Pace, color, Peligion, ancestPy, or national origin.
(4) An owner, person, Teal estate bPoker, agent, salesman,
employee, or lendeP shall not:
(a) Publish, circulate, issue, oP display, oP cause to be
published, ciPculated, issued, oP displayed, any communication, notice,
advertisement, oP sign of any kind relating to the sale, Penta~ lease,
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sublease, assignment, transfer, or listing of a housing accom-
odation or accommodations which indicate any limitation, speci-
fication, or discrimination based on race, color, religion,
ancestry, or national origin.
(b) Aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of
any act defined in this ordinance as an unfair housing practice~
or obstruct or discPiminate against a person in any manner because
he has complied or proposes to comply with the provisions of this
ordinance or has filed a complaint, testified~ or assisted in any
proceeding under this ordinance, or any other issued thereunder,
or attempt, either directly or indirectly, to commit any act de-
fined in this ordinance to be an unfair housing practice or apply
any economic sanctions or deny any membership privileges because
of compliance with the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 7. Exclusions. Nothing in this ordinance shall:
(1) Apply to the renting, subrenting, leasing or sub-
leasing of single family dwellings, wherein the owners or persons
entitled to possession thereof normally maintain, or intend to
maintain, their residences, homes or bodes.
(2) Be interpreted to prohibit any person from making a
choiae fPom among prospective purchasers or tenants of property on
the basis'of factors other than race, color, religion, ancestry or
national origin.
Section 8. Penalty.
Upon conviction of violation of this ordinance,
the guilty party, or parties, shall be subject to a fine of not more
than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00).
APPROVED on first reading this 19th day of June, 1968.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, signed by the Mayor, attested by the City Clerk in authen-
tication of such passage this 28th day of June, 1968.
gLENN K. JARS~, Mayor
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