42-77 New Chpt 516 General - Fair Housing - repeal 11-77

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-3- 516.06 - DISCRIMINATION IN THE PROVISION OF BROKERAGE SERVICES. It shall be unlawful to: a) Deny any person access to or membership or participation in any multiple-listing service, real estate brokers' organization'or other service, organization or facility relating to the business of selling or renting dwellings, or to discriminate against a person in the terms or conditions of such access, membership, or participation, on account of race, color, creed, sex, religious belief or national origin. 516.07 - ADMINISTRATION, DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT SERVICE AND ENFORCEMENT. a) The F~ir Housing Chapter shall be administered by the Director of Community Development, and the Director shall also be responsible for the establishment and administration of a Discrimination Complaint Service. b) The Discrimination Complaint Service shall be available to any person who alleges that his rights have been denied relative t° housing and/or financing for housing because of race, color, creed, sex, religioUs belief or national origin. c) Any person who claims to have been subjected to a discriminatory housing practice shall file a complaint in writing within 180 days of the alleged violation with the Director of Community Development. Said complaint shall contain such information and will be in such form as the Director shall require. d) If the Director determines that there are reasonable grounds to believe a violation has occurred, he shall attempt to conciliate the matter within five (5) working days of the filing of the complaint by utilizing conciliation conferences with all interested parties and such representatives as the parties may choose to assist them. These conferences shall be informal, and nothing shall be made public by the Director regarding the conferences unless all parties agree thereto in writing. During this period the Director shall make such investigation as he deems appropriate. e) If the CommUnity Development Director and the Law Director determine that the person complained against has violated this Chapter, the Law Director of the City of Lakewood shall prepare and issue a directive requiring that person to cease and desist from such unlawful conduct and within fifteen (15) calendar days take such affirmative action as will effectuate the purpose of this Chapter. If after the fifteenth (15) day, the situation has not been rectified, the Director of Community Development shall initiate the proper legal action through the Law Department of the City of Lakewood, or through the complainants legal counsel, or the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, whatever the Director shall deem appropriate. f) If at the conclusion of the informal hearing, the Director of Community Development and LRw Director shall determine upon the preponderance of the evidenne presented that the person complained against has not violated this Chapter, the Director shall issue an order dismissing the complaint. g) The Director is advised to seeks.at any time the cooperation and aid of the U.S.'~Department of Housing and Urban Development and any other person or group regarding any matter before the Director as he deems appropriate. 516.08 - OTHER LEGAL ACTIONS. Nothing contained in this Chapter shall prevent any person from exercising any right or seeking any remedy to ~ich he or she might otherwise be entitled or from filing any complaint with any other agency or court of law. 516.98 - SEVERABILITY OF PROVISIONS. Section and sub-sections of this Ordinance and the several parts and provisions thereof are hereby declared to be independent sections, sub- sections, parts and provisions and 'the holding of any such section, sub- section, part or provision thereof to be unconstitUtional, void or ineffective for any cause, shall not affect nor render invalid any other such section', sub-section, part or provision thereof.