Montebello, N.Y., Code of Ordinances ch. 81 (eCode360 ed. 2026) § 81-4

A. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner, lessor, lessee, sublessee, assignee, or managing agent of, or other person having the right to sell, rent or lease housing accommodations, constructed or to be constructed, or any agent or employee thereof: (1) To refuse to sell, rent, lease or otherwise deny to or withhold from any person any housing accommodations to any person because of the race, creed, color or national origin of such person. (2) To discriminate against any person because of his race, creed, color or national origin in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, rental or lease of any such housing accommodations or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith. (3) To print or circulate, or cause to be printed or circulated, any statement, advertisement or other publication, or to use any form of application for the purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodations, or to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of such housing accommodations which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination as to race, sex, creed, color or national origin, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or discrimination. B. No lending institution doing business in the Village, and if incorporated, regardless of whether incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, the United States or any other jurisdiction, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, to whom application by a person is made for financial assistance for the purchase, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair or maintenance of any housing accommodation, shall: (1) Discriminate against any such applying person because of race, creed, sex, color or national origin of such applying person, or of any member, stockholder, director, officer or employee of such applying person, or of the prospective occupants or tenants of such housing accommodations in the granting, withholding, extending, or in the fixing of the rates, terms or conditions of any such financial assistance. (2) Use any form or application for such financial assistance, or make any record or inquiry in connection with the applications for such financial assistance, which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification, preference or discrimination because of race, sex, creed, color or national origin. C. No person shall aid, abet, incite, compel or coerce the doing of any of the acts forbidden under this chapter, or attempt to do so. D. No person engaged in any activity to which this chapter applies shall retaliate or discriminate against any person because he has opposed any practices forbidden under this chapter, or because he has filed a complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this chapter. E. Applicability after complaints. (1) No person or firm charged with a complaint under this chapter shall sell, lease, dispose of or change the status quo of the premises, property or subject matter involved so as to prevent the person allegedly discriminated against from obtaining the housing accommodations, the property, the job or the financial assistance involved, as the case may be. (2) This section shall apply only after notification has been made to such person or firm that charges of discrimination have been placed against him or it. (3) Any person or firm aggrieved by this section because of any irreparable loss that may accrue to it because of said freeze on the job, housing accommodations and/or financial assistance involved shall have the right to apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for an injunction, temporary or permanent, against this provision of this chapter. (4) This provision shall not freeze the status quo as to such job, housing accommodations or financial assistance for a period greater than 60 days.