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Clerk 06/18/2008
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AN ORDINANCE relating to housing discrimination, to ensure that Title 12 of the King County Code is substantially equivalent to the federal Fair Housing Act; amending Ordinance 5280, Section 3(A), as amended, and K.C.C. 12.20.040 and Ordinance 5280, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 12.20.130.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 5280, Section 3(A), as amended, and K.C.C. 12.20.040 are hereby amended to read as follows:
A. It is a discriminatory practice and unlawful for any person, whether acting for himself or herself or another, because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, parental status, participation in the Section 8 program, sexual orientation, disability or use of a service or assistive animal by an individual with a disability:
1. To refuse to engage in a real estate transaction with a person or to otherwise make unavailable or deny a dwelling to any person;
2. To discriminate against a person in the terms, conditions or privileges of a real estate transaction, including financial terms and conditions such as the setting of rents or damage deposits, or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection with any real estate transaction; however, rents and damage deposits may be adjusted to recognize the number of persons utilizing the property except insofar as such adjustment might discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, parental status, participation in the Section 8 program, sexual orientation, disability or use of a service or assistive animal by an individual with a disability;
3. To refuse to receive or to fail to transmit a bona fide offer to engage in a real estate transaction from a person;
4. To refuse to negotiate for a real estate transaction with a person;
5. To represent to a person that real property is not available for i...
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