Chapter 4.04 HUMAN RIGHTS
Section 4.04.800 Unfair credit practices.
It shall be an unfair or discriminatory practice for any:
1. Creditor to refuse to enter into a consumer credit transaction or impose
finance charges or other terms
or conditions more onerous than those regularly extended by that creditor to consumers of similar economic
backgrounds because of age, color, creed, national origin, race, religion, marital status, sex, physical
disability, membership in any protected class defined by the Iowa Civil Rights Act and/or the Federal
Civil
Rights Act, or familial status.
2. Person authorized or licensed to do business in this state pursuant to chapter
524, 533, 534, 536, or
536A of the Code of Iowa to refuse to loan or extend credit or to impose terms or conditions more onerous
than those regularly extended to persons of similar economic backgrounds because of age, color, creed,
national origin, race, religion, marital status, sex, physical disability, membership in any protected
class
defined by the Iowa Civil Rights Act and/or the Federal Civil Rights Act, or familial status.
3. Creditor to refuse to offer credit life or health and accident insurance
because of color, creed, national
origin, race, religion, marital status, age, physical disability, sex, membership in any protected class
defined
by the Iowa Civil Rights Act and/or the Federal Civil Rights Act, or familial status. Refusal
by a creditor to
offer credit life or health and accident insurance based upon the age or physical disability of the
consumer
shall not be an unfair or discriminatory practice if such denial is based solely upon bona fide underwriting
considerations not prohibited by title XIII, subtitle 1.
The provisions of this section shall not be construed by negative implication
or otherwise to narrow or
restrict any other provisions of this chapter.
State law reference: Iowa Code Section 216.10. (Ord. 2008-0235; 99-7659)