(a) Nothing contained in this part relating to discrimination in housing shall be construed to:

(1) Affect the title or other interest of a person who, prior to the granting of relief, purchases, leases, or takes an encumbrance on a housing accommodation in good faith and without either knowledge or actual notice of the filing of a complaint with the department or of a civil action.

Terms Used In California Government Code 12995

  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Department: means the Civil Rights Department. See California Government Code 12925
  • Discrimination: includes refusal to sell, rent, or lease housing accommodations. See California Government Code 12927
  • Housing accommodation: includes a building, structure, or portion thereof that is occupied, or intended to be occupied, pursuant to a transaction facilitated by a hosting platform, as defined in §. See California Government Code 12927
  • Person: includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, and receivers or other fiduciaries. See California Government Code 12925
  • Sex: includes , but is not limited to, the following:

    California Government Code 12926

  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18

(2) Prohibit any postsecondary educational institution, whether private or public, from providing housing accommodations reserved for either male or female students so long as no individual person is denied equal access to housing accommodations, or from providing separate housing accommodations reserved primarily for married students or for students with minor dependents who reside with them.

(3) Prohibit selection based upon factors other than race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, ancestry, familial status, disability, or other basis prohibited by the Unruh Civil Rights Act.

(4) Promote housing accommodations on a preferential or quota basis.

(b) Nothing contained in this part relating to discrimination in housing shall affect the nondiscriminatory enforcement of state and local public nuisance laws, provided that those laws do not otherwise conflict with the provisions of this part.

(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1277, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 1994.)

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