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42 USC § 3602 - Definitions
“Dwelling” means any building, structure, or portion thereof 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.
“Family” includes a single individual.
“To rent” includes to lease, to sublease, to let and otherwise to grant for a consideration the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupant.
“Discriminatory housing practice” means an act that is unlawful under section 3604, 3605, 3606, or 3617 of this title.
“State” means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any of the territories and possessions of the United States.
“Handicap” means, with respect to a person—
a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person’s major life activities,
“Aggrieved person” includes any person who—
claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice; or
believes that such person will be injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur.
“Complainant” means the person (including the Secretary) who files a complaint under section 3610 of this title.
“Conciliation” means the attempted resolution of issues raised by a complaint, or by the investigation of such complaint, through informal negotiations involving the aggrieved person, the respondent, and the Secretary.
“Conciliation agreement” means a written agreement setting forth the resolution of the issues in conciliation.
the person or other entity accused in a complaint of an unfair housing practice; and
any other person or entity identified in the course of investigation and notified as required with respect to respondents so identified under section 3610
“Prevailing party” has the same meaning as such term has in section 1988 of this title.
(Pub. L. 90–284, title VIII, § 802,Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 81; Pub. L. 95–598, title III, § 331,Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2679; Pub. L. 100–430, § 5,Sept. 13, 1988, 102 Stat. 1619.)
1988—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 100–430, § 5(a), substituted “3606, or 3617” for “or 3606”.
Subsecs. (h) to (o). Pub. L. 100–430, § 5(b), added subsecs. (h) to (o).
1978—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95–598substituted “trustees in cases under title 11” for “trustees in bankruptcy”.
Section 6(b)(3) ofPub. L. 100–430provided that: “For the purposes of this Act [see Short Title of 1988 Amendment note set out under section 3601 of this title] as well as chapter 16 of title 29 of the United States Code [29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.], neither the term ‘individual with handicaps’ nor the term ‘handicap’ shall apply to an individual solely because that individual is a transvestite.”