A. “Dwelling” includes any building containing one or more dwelling units;

B. “Dwelling unit” includes a suite of rooms for occupancy by one family containing space for living, sleeping, and preparation of food, and containing toilet and bathing facilities;

C. “Housing accommodations” include 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;

D. “Lender” includes any bank, insurance company, savings or building and loan association, credit union, trust company, mortgage company, or other person engaged wholly or partly in the business of lending money for financing or acquisition, construction, repair, or maintenance of a housing accommodation;

E. “Occupant” includes any person who has established residence or has the right to occupancy in a housing accommodation;

F. “Owners” include persons who own, lease, sublease, rent, operate, manage, have charge of, control, or have the right of ownership, possession, management, charge, or control of the housing accommodation, on their own behalf or on behalf of another;

G. “Person” includes one or more individuals, partnerships, or other organizations, trade or professional associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, and receivers;

H. “Person aggrieved” means any person against whom any alleged unfair housing practice has been committed;

I. “Prospective borrower” includes any person who seeks to borrow money to finance the acquisition, construction, repair, or maintenance of a housing accommodation;

J. “Prospective occupant” includes any person who seeks to purchase, lease, sublease or rent a housing accommodation;

K. “Real estate agent, salesman, or employee” includes any person employed by or associated with a real estate broker to perform or assist in the performance of any or all of the functions of a real estate broker;

L. “Real estate broker” includes any person who for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, lists for sale, sells, purchases, exchanges, leases or subleases, rents, or negotiates or offers or attempts to negotiate the sale, purchase, exchange, lease, sublease or rental of a housing accommodation of another, or holds himself out as engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, listing, leasing, subleasing, or renting a housing accommodation of another, or collects the rental for the use of a housing accommodation of another;

M. “Respondent” means any person who is alleged to have committed an unfair housing practice;

N. “Rooming unit” includes one or more rooms within a dwelling unit or rooming house containing space for living and sleeping;

O. “Unfair housing practice” means any act prohibited by this chapter. (Ord. 1478 §2, 2015; Ord. 1050 §2, 1997; Ord. 89 §2, 1968).