2052

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 684

(4)    To represent to any person, for reasons of
discrimination, that any dwelling is not available for
inspection, sale or rental when such dwelling is in fact so
available.

(5)  To deny any person access TO or membership or
participation in any multiple listing service, real estate
bicker's organization or other service, organization or
facility relating to the business of selling or renting
dwellings, or to discriminate against him in the terms or
conditions of such access, membership, or participation.

(6) To include in any transfer, sale, rental or lease
of housing any restrictive covenant that discriminates; or
for any person to honor or exercise, or attempt to honor or
exercise any discriminatory covenant pertaining to housing.

Nothing in the provisions of this subtitle shall be
construed to bar any person from refusing to sell, rent or
advertise any dwelling which is planned exclusively for, or
occupied exclusively by, individuals of one sex, to any
individual of the opposite sex, on the basis of sex.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this subtitle, a
person may sell, rent, or advertise any dwelling to aged or
elderly persons only, or if the dwelling is planned
exclusively for or occupied exclusively by a specified age
group.

With respect to sex discrimination and discrimination
on the basis of marital status alone, nothing herein shall
be construed to apply to the rental of rooms within any
dwelling in which the owner maintains his or her principal
residence or to the rental of any apartment in a dwelling
containing not more than five units and in which the owner
maintains his or her principal residence.

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(a) It shall be unlawful for any bank, savings and
loan institution, credit union, insurance company, or other
person regularly engaged in the business of making mortgages
or other leans for the purchase, construction, improvement,
or repair or maintenance of dwellings to deny such a loan to
a person applying therefor, or discriminate against him in
the fixing of the down payment, interest rate, duration, or
other terms or conditions of such a loan, because of the
race, color, [religious] RELIGION, creed, marital status,
sex, national origin or physical or mental handicap of such
person, or of any member, stockholder, director, officer, or
employee of such person, or of the prospective occupants,
lessees, or tenants, of the dwelling or dwellings in
relation to which the application for a loan is made.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any State, county, city,
or municipal treasurer or governmental official whose
responsibility it is to account for, to invest, or manage
public funds to deposit or cause to be deposited any public