§ 11.32.010. General.  


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  • A.

    It is the policy of the City, in the exercise of its police powers for the protection of the public safety, public health, and general welfare, to assure equal opportunity to all persons to live in decent housing facilities and to eliminate discrimination in all housing accommodations regardless of race, color, religion, disability, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, sex, source of income, immigration status, citizenship status, or national origin, and to that end to prohibit discrimination in all housing accommodations by any person.

    B.

    For purposes of this chapter, "immigration status" and "citizenship status" include:

    1.

    A person's actual immigration or citizenship status; and

    2.

    A person's perceived immigration or citizenship status, including a perception based on the person or on the person's association with a person who has or is perceived to have a particular immigration or citizenship status.

    (Prior code § 8-1)

(Ord. No. O-20-15, § I, 6-22-2015; Ord. No. O-44-08, § 1, 4-13-2009; Ord. No. O-1-19, § I, 5-13-2019)

Editor's note

Ord. No. O-1-19, § I, adopted May 13, 2019, changed the title of § 11.32.010 from "Policy" to read as herein set out.