[Ord. No. 3944, § 1, 11-8-2005]
The Board of Aldermen of the City of Crestwood, Missouri hereby
declares it to be the public policy of the City to eliminate and prevent
discrimination, segregation, or separation in all places of public
accommodation covered by this article, and to eliminate and prevent
discrimination, segregation, or separation in housing, and to safeguard
the right of any person to sell, purchase, lease, rent, or obtain
real property without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, disability, or marital status. It is further affirmed that
the opportunity for full and equal public accommodations as covered
by this article and the opportunity for full and equal housing are
civil rights of every citizen.
[Ord. No. 3944, § 2, 11-8-2005]
(a)
It shall be a discriminatory practice and unlawful for the owner,
real estate broker, real estate salesperson or employee or agent thereof,
or any person having the right, responsibility, or authority to sell,
rent, lease, assign or sublease any dwelling unit, commercial unit
or real property or any part or portion thereof or interest therein:
(1)
To refuse to sell or rent after the receipt of a bona fide offer,
or to refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of, or otherwise
make unavailable or deny, a dwelling to a person because of race,
sex, color, religion, national origin, age, ancestry, handicap or
marital status.
(2)
To discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, disability, or marital status in the terms,
conditions, or privileges of the sale, rental, lease, assignment,
or sublease of any housing accommodations or real property or part
or portion thereof or in the furnishing of facilities or services
in connection therewith, or to require a higher sale price or rental
or otherwise impose terms more burdensome upon any person because
of race, color, religion, sex national origin, disability, or marital
status which would not be required of other persons.
(3)
To make, print or publish or cause to be made, printed or published
any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale
or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation
or discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion, ancestry, handicap
or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation,
or discrimination.
(4)
To present to any person because of race, sex, color, religion,
religious affiliation, national origin, age, ancestry, handicap or
familial status, that any dwelling is not available for inspection,
sale, or rental when such dwelling is in fact so available.
(5)
To induce or attempt to induce any person to sell or rent any
dwelling by representations regarding the entry or prospective entry
into the neighborhood of a person or persons of a particular race,
sex, color, religion, religious affiliation, national origin, age,
ancestry, handicap, or marital status.
[Ord. No. 3944, § 3, 11-8-2005]
(a)
The provisions of this article shall not apply to the following:
(1)
The sale, rental, assignment, lease or sublease of a single-family
dwelling owned by an individual in which that individual or a member
of the immediate family resides, and the dwelling is offered for sale,
rental assignment, lease, or sublease, without the use of sales or
rental facilities or services of real estate brokers, agents, salesmen,
or persons in the business of selling or renting dwellings, and without
the publication, posting or mailing of any advertisement in violation
of Subsection 7-152(3) of this article provided, however, that:
a.
Nothing in this provision shall prohibit the use of attorneys,
escrow agents, abstractors, title companies, and other such professional
assistance as necessary to perfect or transfer the title; and
b.
Any such private individual owner does not own any interest
in, nor is there owned or reserved on this behalf, under any express
or voluntary agreement, title to or any right to all or a portion
of the proceeds from the sale or rental of more than three such single-family
houses at any one time.
(2)
A rental or leasing of a dwelling unit in a building which contains
housing accommodations for not more than two families living independently
of each other if the owner or a member of the immediate family resides
in such a dwelling unit.
(3)
A rental or leasing to less than five persons living in a dwelling
unit by the owner if the owner or a member of the immediate family
resides therein.
(4)
Nothing in this article shall prohibit a religious organization,
association, or society, or any nonprofit institution or organization
operated, supervised or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious
organization, association or society, from limiting the sale, rental
or occupancy of real property which it owns or operates for other
than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or from
giving preference to such persons unless membership in such religion
is restricted on account of race, sex, color, national origin, age,
ancestry, handicap or marital status. Nor shall anything in the article
prohibit a private club in fact not open to the public, which as an
incident to its primary purpose or purposes provides lodgings which
it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, from limiting
the rental or occupancy of such lodgings to its members or from giving
preference to its members.
[Ord. No. 3944, § 4, 11-8-2005]
It shall be unlawful for any bank, building and loan association,
insurance company or other corporation, association, firm or enterprise
whose business consists in whole or in part of the making of commercial
real estate loans to deny a loan or other financial assistance to
a person applying therefore for the purpose of purchasing, constructing,
improving repairing or maintaining a dwelling or to discriminate against
said person in the fixing of the amount, interest rate, duration or
other terms and conditions of such loan or other financial assistance
because of the race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, ancestry,
handicap or marital status of such person or of any person associated
with said person in connection with such loan or other financial assistance,
or of the present or prospective owners, lessees, tenants, or occupants,
of the dwellings in relation to which such loan or other financial
assistance is to be made or given.
[Ord. No. 3944, § 5, 11-8-2005]
It shall be unlawful for any person to 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 him in the terms or conditions of such
access, membership or participation on account of race, sex, color,
religion, national origin, age, ancestry, handicap or marital status.
[Ord. No. 3944, § 6, 11-8-2005]
Any person who claims to have been injured or who will be injured
by a discriminatory housing practice may file a complaint with the
Board of Aldermen. The complaint shall be filed within 180 days after
the alleged discriminatory housing practice occurred. For the purposes
of this section, all days of violation with respect to one dwelling
shall be taken to mean on occurrence. Complaints shall be in writing
and shall state the facts upon which the allegations of the discriminatory
practice are based. Upon receipt of such complaint, a copy shall be
furnished to the person or persons who allegedly committed or are
about to commit the alleged discriminatory housing practice.
[Ord. No. 3944, § 7, 11-8-2005]
The authority and responsibility for enforcing this article
shall be vested with the Board of Aldermen. It will be the duty of
the Board of Aldermen to receive and investigate written complaints,
hold hearings, make findings of fact and take such action as it deems
appropriate.
[Ord. No. 3944, § 8, 11-8-2005]
Any person who shall commit a discriminatory housing practice
in violation of this article shall upon conviction thereof be punished
for each such violation by a fine of not less $100 nor more than $1,000.
