California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 4.1 - Civil Rights Department › Chapter 5 - Civil Rights Council › Subchapter 7 - Discrimination in Housing › Article 13 - Consideration of Income › Section 12140.1 - Source of Income Discrimination in Housing Other Than Rental Housing Covered by Section section 12141

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
It is an unlawful practice:
(a) For the owner of any housing
					 accommodation to discriminate against or harass any person because of source of
					 income;
(b) For any person to make,
					 print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice,
					 statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale of a housing
					 accommodation that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination or
					 an intention to make that preference, limitation or discrimination because of
					 source of income;
(c) For any
					 person subject to the provisions of Section
					 51 of the Civil
					 Code, as that section applies to housing accommodations, to discriminate
					 against any person because of source of income;
(d) For any person, bank, mortgage company,
					 or other financial institution that provides financial assistance for the
					 purchase, refinance, organization, or construction of any housing accommodation
					 to discriminate against any person or group of persons because of source of
					 income;
(e) For any owner of
					 housing accommodations to harass, evict, or otherwise discriminate against any
					 person in the sale of housing accommodations when the owner's dominant purpose
					 is retaliation against a person because of source of income;
(f) For any person to aid, abet, incite,
					 compel, or coerce the doing of any of the acts or practices declared unlawful
					 in this section, or to attempt to do so because of source of income;
(g) For any person, for profit, to induce any
					 person to sell or rent any dwelling by representations regarding the entry or
					 prospective entry into the neighborhood of a person or persons because of
					 source of income;
(h) For any
					 person or other organization or entity whose business involves real
					 estate-related transactions, which includes providing insurance to housing
					 providers, to discriminate against any person in making available a
					 transaction, or in the terms and conditions of a transaction, because of source
					 of income;
(i) For any person or
					 other entity whose business includes performing appraisals, as defined in
					 subdivision (b) of Section
					 11302
					 of the Business and Professions Code, of residential real property to
					 discriminate against any person in making available those services, or in the
					 performance of those services, because of source of income;
(j) For any person to deny a person access
					 to, or membership or participation in, a multiple listing service, real estate
					 brokerage organization, or other service because of source of income;
(k) For any person to discriminate through
					 public or private land use practices, decisions, and authorizations because of
					 source of income. Discrimination includes, but is not limited to, restrictive
					 covenants, zoning laws, denials of use permits, and other actions authorized
					 under the Planning and Zoning Law (Title 7 (commencing with Section
					 65000)), that make housing
					 opportunities unavailable.
(l) For
					 any person to otherwise make unavailable or deny a dwelling based on
					 discrimination because of source of income.
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  12935(a),
						  Government Code. Reference: Sections
						  12927,
						  12955 and
						  12955.8,
						  Government Code; and Sisemore v. Master Fin., Inc., (2007) 151 Cal.App.4th
						  1386.