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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="17-608" title_number="17" title_name="Real Estate Brokers" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “handicap” and “familial status” each have the meanings indicated in the federal Fair Housing Act.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Whether or not acting for monetary gain, a person may not knowingly induce or attempt to induce another person to sell or rent a dwelling or otherwise transfer real estate or knowingly discourage or attempt to discourage another person from buying real estate by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>making representations about the entry or prospective entry into a neighborhood of individuals of a particular race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, or national origin;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>making representations about the existing or potential proximity of real property owned or used by individuals of a particular race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, or national origin; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>representing that the existing or potential proximity of real property owned or used by individuals of a particular race, color, sex, religion, handicap, familial status, or national origin will or may result in:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the lowering of property values;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a change in the racial, religious, or ethnic character of the block, neighborhood, or area;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior in the area; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>a decline in the quality of schools serving the area.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not provide financial assistance by loan, gift, or otherwise to another person if the person has actual knowledge that the financial assistance will be used in a transaction that results from a violation of subsection (a) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
