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ORD 68-13 SALE OF RENTAL OR REAL PROPERTYAN ORDINANCE prohibiting discrimination in the sale or rental of real property and in the financing of the sale or rental of real property within the Town of Winslow, Washington, because of race~ color. religion, ancestry or national origin, by any person, including real estate brokers. real estate salesmen and a~ents, owners of real property, and lending institutions. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF WINSLOW, WASHINGT' as follows: Section 1. Declaration of Policy It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Town of Winslow, Washington, in the exercise of its police power for the public safety, public health, and general welfare, for the maintenance of business and good government and for the promotion of the Town's trade, commerce and manufacturers, to assure equal opportunity to all persons to purchase, rent, lease. or otherwise gain the right to possession of real property, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, and to that end to prohibit discrimination in the sale, rental or lease of real property or any interest thereinby any person, including real estate brokers, real estate salesmen and agents, owners of real property and lending institutions. Section 2. Definitions As used in this ordinance, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed in this section: a. Discriminate or Discrimination The terms i'discriminate" or "discrimination" include any difference in treatment in the sale, lease or rental of real property or the financing of the sale. lease or rental of real property because of race, color, relig!..on, ancestry or national origin. b. Real Property The term "real property" shall specifically include all improved and unimproved real property, any dwelling or dwelling unit, rooming unit, rooming house, single room or suite of rooms or an apart- ment or condominium. c. Lending Institution The ~erm "lending institution" means any person, as defined in this ordinance, engaged wholly or partly in the business of lending money for the financing or acquisition, construction, repair, or maintenance of real property, or guaranteeing loans. d. Owner The term "owner" has its normal meaning and includes the lessee, sub-lessee, assignee, managing agent, or another person having the right of ownership or possession, or the right to sell, rent or lease, on their own behalf or on behalf of another, any real property. e. Person The term '!person" includes an association, partnership, or corporation, as well as a natural person. The term "person" as applied to partnerships or other associations includes their members, as applied to corporations includes their officers, as applied to trust~ or estates includes the legal representative of the same. f. Real Estate Broker The term "real estate broker" means any natural person, partnership, association or corporation who, for a fee or other valu- able consideration, sells, purchases, exchanges or rents, or negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange or rental of the real property of another, or holds himself out as engaged i n the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging or renting the real property of another, or collects rental for the use of the real propertl of another. ! g. Real Estate Salesman or Agent The term ~'real estate salesman or agent" means any person employed by a real estate broker to perform, or to assist in the per- formance of~ any or all of the functions of a real estate broker. Section 3. Exclusions Nothing in this ordinance shall: a. Apply to the renting~ subrenting, leasing or subleasing of single family units wherein the owner or person entitled to possessio thereof normally maintains, or intends to maintain, his residence, home or abode. b. Be interpreted to prohibit any person from making a choice from among prospective purchasers or tenants of property on the basis of factors other than race, color, religion, ancestry, or national origin. Section 4. Prohibited Acts It shall be unlawful: a. For any real estate broker or real estate salesman or agent to refuse to sell, lease, sublease, rent~ assign or otherwise transfer, or to refuse to negotiate for the sale, lease, sublease, rental, assignment or other transfer of the title, leasehold, or other interest of any real property to any person, or to represent that such real property is not available for inspection, sale, lease, sublease, renta]~ assignment or other transfer, when in fact it is so available, or to fail to list or show any real property or otherwise to deny or withhold any real property from any person because of race, color, religion~ ancestry or national origin~ b. For any owner to refuse to sell, lease, sublease, rent~ assign or otherwise transfer the title, leasehold or other interest in real property to any person, or otherwise to deny or withhold such real property from any person because of race~ color, religion, ancestry or national origin~ | c. For any real estate broker or real estate salesman or agent to include in the terms, conditions or privileges of any sale, lease, sublease, rental, assignment or other transfer or exchange of any real property, any clause~ condition or restriction discriminating against any person in the use or occupancy of such real property because of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin; d. For any owner to include in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, lease, sublease, rental, assignment or other transfer or exchange of real property, any clause, condition or restric- tion discriminating against any person in the use or occupancy of such real property because of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin; e. For any real estate broker or real estate salesman or agent to discriminate in the furnishing of any facilities or services for any real property because of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin~ f. For any owner to discriminate in the furnishing of any facilities or services for real property because of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin~ g. For any lending institution to discriminate in lending money, guaranteeing loans, accepting mortgages, or otherwise making available funds for the purchase~ acquisition~ construction, rehabili- tation, repair or maintenance of any real property because of race~ color,~religion~ ancestry or national origin~ h. For any real estate broker, real estate salesman or agent~ owner, or any other person, or any lending institution, to publish Or circulate~ or to cause to be published or circulated~ any notice~ statement or advertisement, or to announce a policy~ or to use any form of application for the purchase, lease~ rental or financing of real property, or to make any record or inquiry in connection with the | prospective purchase, rental or lease of real property, t~at expresses directly or indirectly any limitation, specification or discrimination as to race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification, or discrimination; i. For any person, whether or not a real estate broker, real estate salesman or agent, owner, or lending institution, to aid, incite, compel, coerce, or participate directly or indirectly in the doing of any act declared by this ordinance to be unlawful. Section 5- Penalties A violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500). PASSED by the Council of the Town of Winslow, Washington, and approved by its Mayor at a regular meeting thereof held this ~__O_ day of ~I ~ , 1968. Town Clerk !