Macomb — Ch. 13 Housing § 13-92

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Chair means the person designated to conduct the sessions of the commission.
Commission means the Macomb Equal Opportunity and Fair Housing Commission of the city.
Complainant means a person who believes that he has been aggrieved by a violation of a provision of this article and who files a complaint with the commission or officer.
Contractor means persons who contract with the city in a total amount of $2,500.00 or more for any single contract in the current or preceding fiscal year.
Discriminate and discrimination include any difference in treatment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service which would not interfere with the efficient performance of the job in question.
Employ means to use or be entitled to the use and benefit of the services of a person as an employee.
Employee includes any and all persons who perform services for any employer for compensation, whether in the form of wages, salary, commission or otherwise, excluding the parents, spouse or children of the employer.
Employer includes any person within the city who hires or employs any employee, and any person wherever situated who hires or employs any employee whose services are to be partially or wholly performed in the city, but excluding any religious or fraternal corporation, association, society or organization with respect to the hiring or employment of individuals from its membership when such membership shall be a bona fide occupational qualification for employment, provided such selection is not based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, order of protection status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or unfavorable discharge from military service.
Employment means the state of being employed as an employee by an employer, but excluding the employment of individuals in domestic service.
Employment agency means any person regularly undertaking, with or without compensation, to procure employment for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer.
Hire means to engage or contract for or attempt to engage or contract for the services of any person as an employee.
Labor organization includes any person, employee, representation committee, organization or plan in which employees participate, and which exists wholly or in part for the purpose of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours or other terms or conditions of employment or of other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment, and shall include without limitation any conference, general committee, joint board or joint council.
Lease includes sublease, assignment and rental, and includes any contract to do any of such acts.
Lending institution means any bank, insurance company or savings and loan association or any other person in the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans, any person in the business of obtaining, arranging or negotiating loans or guarantees as agent or broker, and any person in the business of buying or selling loans or instruments for the payment of money which are secured by title to or a security interest in real estate.
National origin includes the national origin of an ancestor.
Owner means any person who holds legal or equitable title to or owns any beneficial interest in any real property, or who holds legal or equitable title to shares of or holds any beneficial interest in any real estate cooperative which owns any real property.
Person includes one or more individuals, labor organizations, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, agents, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, public bodies or public corporations, including but not limited to the city or any department or unit thereof.
Purchase means any contract to purchase.
Real estate agent means any real estate broker, any real estate salesperson and any other person who, as an employee or agent or otherwise, engages in the management or operation of any real property.
Real estate broker means any person licensed as a real estate broker in accordance with the provisions of the Real Estate License Act of 2000, 225 ILCS 454/1-1 et seq., or required thereby to be so licensed.
Real estate salesperson means any person licensed as a real estate salesperson in accordance with the provisions of the Real Estate License Act of 2000, 225 ILCS 454/1-1 et seq., or required thereby to be so licensed.
Real estate transaction means the purchase, sale, exchange, rental or lease of any real property, or an option to do any of such acts.
Real property means any real estate, vacant land, building or structure within the city limits.
Respondent means a person charged with a violation of a provision of this article.
Sale includes any contract to sell or exchange or to convey, transfer or assign legal or equitable title to or a beneficial interest in real property.
Vendors means persons who have sold more than $2,500.00 in worth of goods or services to the city in the current or preceding fiscal year.
Cross reference-- Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2 .