Chapter 7.36
PENALTIES/FINES – REMEDIES/RELIEF
Sections:
7.36.010 Penalty/fines.
Any person violating any provision of this title may be directed to:
A. Cease and desist from any violation of this title;
B. Pay a civil penalty to vindicate the public interest, except that if the acts constituting the discriminatory housing practice that is the subject of the complaint are committed by the same person who has been previously adjudged to have committed acts constituting a discriminatory housing practice, then the civil penalties set forth in subsections (B)(2) and (3) of this section may be imposed without regard to the period of time within which any subsequent discriminatory housing practice occurred:
1. In an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars if the respondent has not been adjudged to have committed any prior violations of any provision of this title;
2. In an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars if the respondent has been adjudged to have committed one other violation of this title during the five-year period prior to the filing date of the current complaint;
3. In an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars if the respondent has been adjudged to have committed two or more violations of this title during the seven-year period prior to the filing date of the current complaint. (Ord. 95-8 § 14, 1995; Ord. 94-23 § 1, 1994)
7.36.020 Remedies/relief.
In addition to the penalties and fines delineated in RMC 7.36.010, the fair housing review board may undertake additional actions, including but not limited to the following:
A. Directing the respondent to pay compensatory/actual damages (including damages to compensate for mental anguish), punitive damages, attorney fees and costs.
B. Directing the respondent to provide other equitable relief including, but not limited to, access to the dwelling at issue, or to a comparable dwelling, the provision of services or facilities in connection with a dwelling, or other specific relief.
C. Directing the respondent to provide other injunctive relief appropriate to the elimination of discriminatory housing practices affecting the aggrieved person or other persons.
D. Directing the administrator to send copies of the decision/report to the Department of Professional Registration of the state and recommend appropriate disciplinary action, including, where appropriate, the suspension or revocation of the license of the respondent.
E. Further, any persons violating any provision of this title may also be required to undertake actions to prevent future discriminatory housing practices; to undertake remedial affirmative activities to overcome discriminatory housing practices; or to undertake various report requirements, including but not limited to:
1. Requiring the respondent and all of the respondent’s brokers, associate brokers, salespeople and agents and employees who are employed as sales or rental agents or have contractual relationship with him and are responsible for sales and/or rental of any residential properties, to attend a fair housing training session conducted by U.S. HUD or an agency acceptable to the president and trustees. Such training session shall cover federal, state and local fair housing laws, applicable case law, and real life or role playing situations. Costs of such training session shall be borne by the defendant;
2. Requiring all agents and employees of any respondent, owner and/or management company to utilize the fair housing logo and slogan in all advertising and telephone directories, and on all company stationery, forms, pamphlets and brochures;
3. Requiring all agents and employees of any respondent, owner and/or management company to post and maintain, in a manner conspicuous to tenants and prospective tenants, buyers and prospective buyers, the fair housing poster and logo;
4. Requiring any respondent owner and/or management company to provide quarterly reports in writing for a period of five years of the names, addresses, race and sex of each prospective buyer/renter who seeks respondent’s aid in locating housing and the subsequent showings to each prospective buyer/renter and the final disposition. (Ord. 94-23 § 1, 1994)