§ 18-21. Definitions.

The terms as used herein shall be defined as follows:

Administrator: That person appointed by the board of county commissioners pursuant to section 18-22 hereof.

Age: Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the work age as used herein shall refer exclusively to persons who are 18 years of age or older.

Discriminatory housing practice: An act that is unlawful under section 18-22 hereof.

Family: One or more persons living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling.

Housing or housing accommodation: Any building, structure, or portion thereof, mobile home or trailer, or other facility which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure, or portion thereof, mobile home or trailer or other facility.

Lending institution: Any bank, insurance company, savings and loan association or any other person or organization regularly engaged in the business of lending money, guaranteeing loans, or sources of credit information, including, but not limited to credit bureaus.

Owner: Any person, including, but not limited to a lessee, sublease, assignee, manager, or agent, and also including the county and its departments or other subunits, having the right of ownership or possession or the authority to sell or lease any housing accommodation.

Person: One or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mortgage companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, or public corporations, including, but not limited to the county or any department or subunit thereof.

Real estate agent: Any real estate broker, any real estate salesperson, or any other person, employee, agent, or otherwise, engaged in the management or operation of any real property,

Real estate broker or salesperson: A person, whether licensed or not, who, for or with the expectation of receiving a consideration, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases real property, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate any of these activities, or who holds himself or herself out as engaged in these activities, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured or to be secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon real property, or who is engaged in the business of listing real property in a publication; or a person employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.

Real estate transaction: Includes the sale, purchase, exchange, rental or leases of real property, and any contract pertaining thereto.

Rent: Includes leases, sublease, assignment and/or rental, including any contract to do any of the foregoing, or otherwise granting for a consideration the right to occupy premises that are not owned by the occupant.

Respondent: Any person against whom a complaint is filed pursuant to this chapter.

Sale: Includes any contract to sell, exchange, or to convey, transfer or assign legal or equitable title to, or a beneficial interest in, real property.

(Ord. No. 2015-021715-01, § 3, 2-17-2015)