Section 4.04.400 Unfair practices - accommodations or services.

1. It shall be an unfair or discriminatory practice for any owner, lessee, sublessee, proprietor, manager, or superintendent of any public accommodation or any agent or employee thereof:

a. To refuse or deny to any person because of race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability or membership in any protected class defined by the Iowa Civil Rights Act and/or the Federal Civil Rights Act the accommodations, advantages, facilities, services, or privileges thereof, or otherwise to discriminate against any person because of race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability or membership in any protected class defined by the Iowa Civil Rights Act and/or the Federal Civil Rights Act in the furnishing of such accommodations, advantages, facilities, services, or privileges.

b. To directly or indirectly advertise or in any other manner indicate or publicize that the patronage of persons of any particular race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, disability or member of any protected class defined by the Iowa Civil Rights Act and/or the Federal Civil Rights Act is unwelcome, objectionable, not acceptable, or not solicited.

c. To discriminate against any other person because such person has opposed any practice forbidden under this chapter or has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this chapter.

d. To aid, incite, compel, coerce, or participate in the doing of any act declared to be a discriminatory accommodations practice under this section, or attempt, directly or indirectly, to commit any act declared by this section to be a discriminatory practice.

a. Any bona fide religious institution with respect to any qualifications the institution may impose based on religion or other classification specifically exempted by the Iowa Civil Rights Act and/or the Federal Civil Rights Act when such qualifications are related to a bona fide religious purpose.

b. The rental or leasing to transient individuals of less than six rooms within a single housing accommodation by the occupant or owner of such housing accommodation if the occupant or owner or members of that person's family reside therein.

d. Restrictions based on sex on the rental or leasing of housing accommodations which the owner can show were operated for the purpose of providing housing for persons of any one sex prior to January 21, 1972.