South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 65 - SOUTH CAROLINA HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMISSION › Subchapter 2 - FAIR HOUSING › Article 1 - DISCRIMINATORY CONDUCT › Section 65-211 - Discriminatory Housing Practices

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
A.
				Real Estate practices prohibited.
(1) This
				rule provides the Commission's interpretation of conduct that is unlawful
				housing discrimination under the South Carolina Fair Housing Law. In general,
				the prohibited actions are set forth under sections of this Rule which are most
				applicable to the discriminatory conduct described. However, an action
				illustrated in one section can constitute a violation under other sections in
				the Rule.
(2) Prohibited actions
				under this section include, but are not limited to:
(a) Failing to accept or consider a bona fide
				offer because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or
				national origin.
(b) Refusing to
				sell or rent a dwelling to, or not negotiate for the sale or rental of a
				dwelling with any person because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap,
				familial status, or national origin.
(c) Imposing different sales prices or rental
				charges for the sale or rental of a dwelling upon any person because of race,
				color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
(d) Using different qualification criteria or
				applications, or sale or rental standards or procedures, such as income
				standards, application requirements, application fees, credit analysis, or sale
				or rental approval procedures or other requirements, because of race, color,
				religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
(e) Evicting tenants because of their race,
				color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin or because
				of the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
				origin of a tenant's guest.
(f)
				Using different provisions in leases or contracts of sale, terms of a lease and
				those relating to down payment and closing requirements, because of race,
				color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
(g) Failing or delaying maintenance or
				repairs of sale or rental dwellings because of race, color, religion, sex,
				handicap, familial status or national origin.
(h) Failing to process an offer for the sale
				or rental of a dwelling or to communicate an offer accurately because of race,
				color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
(i) Limiting the use of privileges, services
				or facilities associated with a dwelling because of race, color, religion, sex,
				handicap, familial status, or national origin of an owner, tenant or person
				associated with him or her.
(j)
				Denying or limiting services or facilities in connection with the sale or
				rental of a dwelling, because a person failed or refused to provide sexual
				favors.
(k) Discouraging any person
				from inspecting, purchasing, or renting a dwelling because of race, color,
				religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or because of the
				race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin of
				persons in a community, neighborhood or development.
(l) Discouraging the purchase or rental of a
				dwelling because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or
				national origin, by exaggerating drawbacks or failing to inform any persons of
				desirable features of a dwelling or of a community, neighborhood, or
				development.
(m) Communicating to
				any prospective purchaser that he or she would not be comfortable or compatible
				with existing residents of a community, neighborhood or development because of
				race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
				origin.
(n) Assigning any person to
				a particular section of a community, neighborhood or development, or to a
				particular floor of a building, because of race, color, religion, sex,
				handicap, familial status, or national origin.
(o) Discharging or taking other adverse
				action against an employee, broker, or agent because he or she refused to
				participate in a discriminatory housing practice.
(p) Employing codes or other devices to
				segregate or reject applicants, purchasers or renters or refusing to deal with
				certain brokers or agents because they or one or more of their clients are of a
				particular, race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
				origin.
(q) Denying or delaying the
				processing of an application made by a purchaser or renter or refusing to
				approve such a person for occupancy in a cooperative or condominium dwelling
				because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national
				origin.
(r) Refusing to provide
				municipal services or property or hazard insurance for dwellings or providing
				such services or insurance differently because of race, color, religion, sex,
				handicap, familial status, or national origin.