9.22.020 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed in this section:
A. “Discriminate” or “discrimination” includes any difference in treatment in the sale, lease, rental, or financing of housing units or housing accommodations because of race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin;
B. “Housing accommodation” includes any dwelling or dwelling unit, rooming unit, rooming house, lot or parcel of land in the city which is used, intended to be used, or arranged or designed to be used as, or improved with, a residential structure for one or more human beings;
C. “Housing unit” or “dwelling unit” means:
1. A single room or suite of rooms, or an apartment or a dwelling, occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by an individual, by a family, or by a group of individuals living together, or
2. A parcel of real property or a lot available for the construction of a housing or dwelling unit;
D. “Lending institution” means any person, as defined in this chapter, engaged wholly or partly in the business of lending money for the financing or acquisition, construction, repair, or maintenance of a housing accommodation or guaranteeing loans;
E. “Real estate broker” means any natural person, partnership, association or corporation, who for a fee or other valuable 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 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;
F. “Real estate salesman or agent” means any person employed by a real estate broker to perform, or to assist in the performance of, any or all of the functions of a real estate broker. (Prior code § 6.68.020.)