[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and City Council
of the City of Monroe 12-18-1967 by Ord. No. 944. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
General penalty — See § 1-27.
Public nuisances — See Ch. 458.
Uniform housing code — See Ch. 525.
Rental properties — See Ch. 550.
STATUTORY REFERENCES
Civil Rights Law — See MCLA
§ 37.1 et seq.
Housing generally — See MCLA
§ 125.651 et seq.
Discrimination in government housing — See
MCLA §§ 750.146, 750.147.
It is hereby found that discrimination in housing
adversely affects the continued development, renewal, growth and progress
of the people of the City and of the City itself and that such discrimination
is injurious to the public health, safety and general welfare of the
City and the people thereof.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meaning indicated:
Any difference in treatment of individuals or groups in the
sale, lease, rental or financing of housing units, real estate or
housing accommodations because of age; race; height; weight; religion,
or lack thereof; disability; color; national or sectional origin;
sex; familial status; sexual orientation; gender identity; or that
of their friends or associates.
[Amended 9-20-2021 by Ord. No. 21-008]
Any person regularly engaged in the business of lending money
or guaranteeing loans on real property.
The lessee, lessor, sublessee, sublessor, assignee, assignor,
managing agent or other person having the right of ownership or possession
or the right to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation or any
part thereof.
An association, partnership or corporation, as well as a
natural person. "Person," as applied to partnerships, means the partnership
and the partners thereof, and, as applied to corporations, means the
corporation and the officers thereof.
Any natural person, partnership, association or corporation
who or which, for a fee or other valuable consideration, sells, purchases,
exchanges, rents or negotiates or attempts to negotiate the sale,
purchase, exchange or rental of real property, or holds himself or
herself out as licensed in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging
or renting the real property of another, or collects rental for the
use of the real property of another.
To sell, rent, lease, sublease or assign real property.
[Amended 9-20-2021 by Ord. No. 21-008]
No owner of real property, lessee, lessor, sublessee,
sublessor, real estate broker or salesman, lender, financial institution,
advertiser or agent of any of the foregoing shall discriminate against
any person because of his or her age; race; height; weight; religion,
or lack thereof; disability; color; national or sectional origin;
sex; familial status; sexual orientation; gender identity; or that
of their friends or associates, in regards to the sale, rental of
or dealings concerning real property located in the City.
A.
Nothing in this chapter shall require an owner to
offer property to the public at large before selling or renting it,
nor shall this chapter be deemed to prohibit owners from giving preference
to prospective tenants or their buyers for any reasons other than
age; race; height; weight; religion, or lack thereof; disability;
color; national or sectional origin; sex; familial status; sexual
orientation; gender identity; or that of their friends or associates.
[Amended 9-20-2021 by Ord. No. 21-008]
B.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to
limit the rights of access by an individual to remedies before the
Civil Rights Commission of this state or before the courts of this
state on an individual basis, or so as to prohibit the cooperation
between the City and the Civil Rights Commission.
C.
This chapter shall not apply to the rental of a room
or rooms to three or fewer persons in a single-family dwelling or
a two-family unit, the remainder of which dwelling unit is occupied
by the owner or a member of his or her immediate family, or a lessee
of the entire dwelling unit or a member of his or her immediate family.
