216.7 - UNFAIR PRACTICES -- ACCOMMODATIONS OR SERVICES.
216.7 UNFAIR PRACTICES -- ACCOMMODATIONS OR
SERVICES.
1. It shall be an unfair or discriminatory practice for any
owner, lessee, sublessee, proprietor, manager, or superintendent of
any public accommodation or any agent or employee thereof:
a. To refuse or deny to any person because of race, creed,
color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,
religion, or disability the accommodations, advantages, facilities,
services, or privileges thereof, or otherwise to discriminate against
any person because of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, national origin, religion, or disability in the
furnishing of such accommodations, advantages, facilities, services,
or privileges.
b. To directly or indirectly advertise or in any other manner
indicate or publicize that the patronage of persons of any particular
race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, religion, or disability is unwelcome, objectionable,
not acceptable, or not solicited.
2. This section shall not apply to:
a. Any bona fide religious institution with respect to any
qualifications the institution may impose based on religion, sexual
orientation, or gender identity when such qualifications are related
to a bona fide religious purpose.
b. The rental or leasing to transient individuals of less
than six rooms within a single housing accommodation by the occupant
or owner of such housing accommodation if the occupant or owner or
members of that person's family reside therein. Section History: Early Form
[C97, § 5008; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 13251; C46, 50, 54, 58, §
735.1; C66, 71, § 105A.6; C73, § 601A.6; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 601A.7]
Section History: Recent Form
C93, § 216.7
2007 Acts, ch 191, §5, 6
Referred to in § 123.32, 216.2