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HomeMy WebLinkAboutA002 - proof of publication, August 22, 1966 LEGAL NOTICE the approval of'the city Coun-I- -~ Proof of Publication in ' h.e ORDINANCE NO. 2155 cil. Three of the members shall AMES DAILY TRIBUNE AN ORDINANCE PROVID- be appointed for terms of two ING FOR THE GENERAL years. and two of the members — WELFARE OF THE INHABIT- shall be appointed for terms of STATE OF IOWA,STORY COUNTY,ss. ANTS OF THE CITY OF three years. Members thereaft- AMES, IOWA, BY DECLARING er regularly appointed shall be DISCRIMINATORY PRACT- appointed for the same terms 1 W. T. Farley on oath ICES IN THE LEASING, SALE, as their predecessors in office. Each regular term commences depose and say that I am-4) fib,xW foreman FINANCING, SHOWING AND year in whichf th on April 1, of y i ADVERTISING OF REAL' of the AMES DAILY TRIBUNE, a daily PROPERTY; FOR THE CREA- the appointment is made No TION OF A COMMISSION person shall be re-appointed I newspaper, printed at Ames, Story County, FOR THE INVESTIGATION more than once, nor shall he serve in the aggregate more Iowa; that the annexed printed AND CONCILIATION OF COM- six years. LAINTS THEREOF; PROVID- thanING FOR PUBLIC•HEARINGS The Chairman of the Commis- __� 111I7��_ _2��5___ ._ ION ALLEGATIONS THERE- lion shall originally be desig-; OF; AND PROVIDING FOR nated by the Mayor with the'. THE ENFORCEMENT THERE- .approval of the City Council for I OF. a definite period, not to exceed was published in said newspaper for IT IS ORDAINED BY THE three Years. CITY COUNCIL OF THE,CITY In any case, where a vacancy consecutive weeks, the first -- ------- OF AMES, IOWA: is created in the membership ion by death, and the last of said publication was on the Section 1. The Municipal Code of the Commiss resignation, or otherwise, prior of the City of Ames, Iowa, is `�U USt_________ to the normal expiration of the 2211 __ day of �._ amended by adding a new title member's term, the Mayor, with thereto, known 'as "TITLE the approval of the City Conn- 19_66, titleThe first Chapter e said cil shall appointed a new mem- title is numbered "Chapter 79," ,ber to serve the remaining par and is known as the "FAIR -- -� of the member tion of the term HOUSING ORDINANCE." Said creating the vacancy. Sworn to before me and subscribed my Chapter contains new sections, Any or all, members of the numbered 79-1 to 79-11, inclu- presence by 'Iibl�l�fi?QXI44d�, W Farley Commission may; at any time, sive, as follows. be removed from office by the 79-1. Fair Housing Commis- this ___21 r __ d__ day of _ kU�USt______ lion Created. "There is created, Mayor with the approval of the City Council, for the administration of this After the Mayor and City t Chapter, a "Fair Housing Com- mission.'' This Commission con- -Notary Public sists of five members who shall cc�� in and for Story County. be appointed by the Mayor with Fees, s_1rs5 Z_____. Council have so designated the otherwise transf rring, or to U. Any person; firm, or corp- g 79-4. Secretary: Duties. "The Chairman of the Commission discriminate in n,gotiations for oration to discriminate in the Secretary of the Commission and the length of time he shall leng the sale, lease, sublease, rental, furnishing of any facilities or shall be it member thereof, ap- serve as Chairman, the Com- assignment or other transfer, of servvices for any real property ointed and elected as herein- the title, leasehold or other in- because of race, color, religion, efore provided, and shall per- mission shall elect its other. !terest in an housin unit Y g ancestry or national origin. officers, determine its time and f rm the following duties.: place of meeting,,and may ex- against any person; or to rep- e. Any person, firm, or corp- a. Keep all official records of resent that real property is not oration to publish or circulate, sect re herein provided, adopt available for ins section, sale, the Commission; such regulations no in conflict t or to cause to be published or g lease, sublease, rental' assign- b. Record the minutes of each with the Law or ordinances of circulated, any notice, state- meeting of the Commis- the or other transfer when in ment or advertisement, or to an- the City, as in its own judgment sion; are necessary for the successful fact it is so available; or other- pounce a policy, or to use any y c. Record all complaints ad- administration of the provisions wise to deny or withhold any form of application for the P real property front any person dressed to the Commission; of .this Chapter. A majority of purchase, lease, rental or fin- � P d. Make preliminary because of race, color, religion, aneing of housing; or to makeiminary investi- the members constitutes a quor- �' gations into all such cam- ancestry or national origin. any record of inquiry in con- rum for the transaction of buss- 1 plaints; and b. Any person, firm, or corp- nection with the prospective ness. The Commission has only oration, to include in the terms, e. Report all complaints, find- the powers and duties expressly conditions or privileges of any i ings, and recommendations hereinafter provided." ' to the whole Commission sale, lease, sublease, rental, as- purchase, rental, or lease of real, t 79-2. Discrimination, Defined. for further action. signment or other transfer of property, which expresses di-' -F the Commission so deter- "The term `discrimination,' as, any real property, any clause, rattly or indirectly discrimina-I used herein, means any unreas- nines, it may designate from condition or restriction discrim- tion because of race, color, reli-' onable difference in treatment inating against any person in is membership an Assistant- gion, ancestry, or natural ori- in the showing,sale, lease, rent- the use or occupancy of such secretary to hold such office no al, financing,"or advertising of real property because of race, gin _onger than his term as a mem- f. Any person, firm, or corp- any real property used or usable color, religion, ancestry or na- per of the Commission. The for purposes of human habita- oration to aid, incite, compel, tuties of the Assistant-Secre- .tional origin. coerce, or participate in the do- tion, or for the construction c. An ary may include those of the thereof, because of race, color, y Person, firm, or corp- ins of any act declared to be a oration engaged in lendin Secretary, and those assigned g discriminatory practice under religion, ancestry, or national money, guaranteeing loans, ac- this Chapter; or to obstruct or by duly adopted rules of the origin; and shall include any or cepting mortgages or otherwise prevent compliance with the Commission. The Assistant-Sec- all of the discriminatory prat- provisions of this Chapter, or retary shall perform his duties making available funds far the tices hereinafter enumerated." acquisition; construe- under the supervision and di- purchase, any proceedings of the Com- reotion of the Secretary, and 79-3. Dis riminatory Pract- tion, rehabilitation, repair or mission; or to attempt directly ices, En um-rated. "It is a dis- maintenance of any real prop- or indirectly to commit any act shall Perform the duties of the criminatory practice for: erty, to discriminate therein be- declared by this Chapter to be Secretary when the Secretary a. Any person, firm, or corp- cause of race, color, religion, a discriminatory practice." is absent, or when so directed oration, to discriminate in the .ancestry or national origin. by the Commission." showing, selling, leasing, sub- leasing, renting, assigning or '19-5. Complaints. "Any person 79.9 public Hearing. "If after who believes that he or she is thirty days (a) the person, firm, a victim of discrimination de- or corporation complained of re- fined herein, or of one or more fuses to meet with the commit- b. The rental or leasing to of the discriminatory practices tee; or (b) conciliation and the less than seven persons within a single housing accomodation defined herein, may file with obtaining of commitments the Secretary or; in his absence, by the occupant or owner, of against recurrence fails, the with the Assistant-Secretary, a committee shall report the mat- such housing accomodation if sworn complaint setting forth he or members of his family Te- ter.to the Commission, which the particulars of the alleged shall fix a time and place for a side therein. discrimination or discriminatory public hearing on the complaint. bo n n The rental o leasing to a practice. The Commission will within thirty days thereafter a fide religious organiaa- not consider or process any tion. such complaint filed later than and provide for at least ten days notice thereof, to be given Section 2. All ordinances and sixty days after the date of such by the committee to the com- parts of ordinances in conflict alleged discrimination or dis- plainant, the herewith are repealed. criminatory practice." party complained of, and other persons having Section 3. This ordinance is 79-6. Complaints Reported to knowledge of or.a direct inter- in force and effect from and the Commission. "After duly fil- est in the matters complained after its passage and publica- ing such complaint with the of. At such hearing, testimony tion according to law. Secretary or Assistant-Secre- may be presented by either Passed this 16th day of Aug- tary, and within thirty days party and by persons having ust, 1966. thereafter, the Secretary or knowledge of or a direct inter- D. R. Newbroug h, Assistant-Secretary shall report est in the matter complained of. Mayor The Commission, presided over Louise Whitcome, by its Chairman, shall consti- City Clerk to the Commission, in executive tute the hearing board and eith. Published in The Ames Daily session, each such complaint er party may appear on his own Tribune, August 22, 1966. and his findings and recom. behalf or by counsel, present mendation relating thereto." testimony, and cross-examine 79-7 Conciliation and Persua- witnesses. It shall be the duty sion. "The Commission, sitting of the Commission to maintain in executive session, shall with- order and maintain proper de-' in sixty days after the com- corum throughout the hearing. plaint has been filed, consider Upon the completion of the each such complaint, and in hearing, the Commission shall each instance where a majority forthwith poll its membership of the members are of the opin- and announce its finding as to ion that a probable showing of whether, in fact, discrimination discrimination has been made exists or a discriminatory act or of the existence of a discrim- or practice has been committed. inatory practice, it shall direct In any case where, in the opin. a committee comprised of one ion of the Commission, discrim- or more members of the Com- ination exists or a discrimina- mission to call upon the person, tory Practice has been commit- firm, or corporation, alleged to ted, all files, records, and re. have committed an act of dis- ports in such case shall there- crimination or to have engaged upon become available for pub. in a discriminatory practice, to lic inspection." attempt to effect a conciliation 79-10. Failure to Honor Com- between the parties and to ob- mitment. "In any case where a tain commitments designed to Person, firm, or corporation, has prevent recurrence of the mat- made commitments as herein. ters complained of." above provided, and the Com. 79-8. Confidentiality of pro- mission finds, on subsequent ceedings. "In the event that the complaint, that such commit- Committee is successful in of ments have not been kept, it fecting a conciliation between shall then open for public in- the parties within thirty days spection all of its files of pre- thereafter or sooner becomes vious complaints involving said convinced that no discrimina- person, firm, or corporation." tion was practiced, the com- 79-11. Exemptions. "Nothing plaint and all proceedings shall in the foregoing sections shall be and remain confidential; and apply to: any disclosure thereof except as Pa.the rental or leasing of a hereinafter authorized, by the jowner or_—members —=�am Secretary, Assistant-Secretary, ily reside inone of such hous. or any other member of the 'ing units. j Commission shall be grounds -- -- for removal from office."