Stewartville, Minn., City Code ch. 10 §§ 1010, 1020, 1030 (2026) § 1020.02

    1020.02 Prohibited Acts in Regard to Housing. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice
and unlawful:

        A. For any person to discriminate on grounds of race, creed, religion, color, sex, marital
        status, status with regard to public assistance, national origin, age or disability in the sale,
        lease, or rental of any housing unit or units.

        B. For any broker, salesperson or other person acting in behalf of another to so discriminate
        in the sale, lease, or rental of any housing unit or units belonging to such other person.

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C. For any person engaged in the business of financing the purchase, rehabilitation,
        remodeling or repair of housing units or in the business of selling insurance with respect to
        housing units to refuse to provide the financing or insurance or to discriminate with regard
        to the terms or conditions thereof by reason of the race, color, sex, religion, creed, national
        origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age or disability of the applicant
        or because of the location of the unit or units in areas of the City occupied by persons of a
        particular race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, marital status, status with regard
        to public assistance, age or disability; or to discriminate by treating differently any person or
        group of persons who desire to purchase, lease, acquire, construct, rehabilitate, repair or
        maintain real property in a specific urban area because of social, economic or environmental
        conditions of the area in the granting, withholding, extending, modifying or renewing, or in
        the rates, terms, conditions, or privileges of any financial assistance or in the extension of
        services in connection therewith. The bona fide programs of Federal, State or local
        governmental units or agencies, however structured or authorized to upgrade or improve in
        any manner a specific urban area shall not be deemed to be a violation of this Section.

        D. For any person, having sold, leased, or rented a housing unit or units to any person, to
        discriminate with respect to facilities, services, or privileges of occupancy by reason of race,
        color, sex, creed, religion, national origin, age or disability, marital status or status with
        regard to public assistance.

        E. For any person to make or publish any statement evidencing an intent to discriminate, on
        grounds of race, creed, religion, color, sex, national origin or ancestry, marital status, status
        with regard to public assistance, age or disability, in the sale, lease, or rental of a housing unit
        or units.

        F. For any person to make any inquiry regarding race, color, sex, creed, religion, national
        origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age or disability, or to keep any
        record or use any form of application, designed to elicit the information, in connection with
        the sale, lease, rental, or financing of a housing unit or units.

        G. For any person, for the purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which he or
        she may benefit financially:

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1. To represent that a change has occurred or shall or may occur in the composition of
             the block, neighborhood, or area in which the property is located, in respect of the race,
             color, sex, creed, religion, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public
             assistance, age or disability of those living there; or,

             2. To represent that this change shall or may result in the lowering of property values,
             an increase in crime, or anti-social behavior or a decline in the quality of schools in the
             block, neighborhood, or area concerned.