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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="20-703" title_number="20" title_name="Human Relations" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Discrimination in Housing">
  <text>This subtitle does not:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>invalidate or limit any local law that requires dwellings to be designed and constructed in a manner that affords an individual with a disability greater access than is required by § 20–706(b) of this subtitle;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>limit the applicability of any reasonable local, State, or federal restrictions regarding the maximum number of occupants allowed to occupy a dwelling;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>prohibit the State or a local government from enacting standards that govern the location of group homes, as defined in § 4–601 of the Housing and Community Development Article;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>affect the powers of any local government to enact an ordinance on any subject covered by this subtitle, provided that the ordinance does not authorize any act that would be a discriminatory housing practice under this subtitle;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>require that a dwelling be made available to an individual whose tenancy would:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>constitute a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>result in substantial physical damage to the property of others;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>prohibit conduct against a person because the person has been convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of the illegal manufacture or distribution of:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>a controlled dangerous substance, as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>a controlled substance, as defined in 21 U.S.C. § 802;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>unless membership in the religion is restricted on the basis of race, color, or national origin, prohibit a religious organization, association, or society or any nonprofit institution or organization operated, supervised, or controlled by or in conjunction with a religious organization, association, or society from giving preference or limiting the sale, rental, or occupancy of dwellings that it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>prohibit a private club that is not open to the public and that, as an incident to its primary purpose or purposes, provides lodgings that it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, from limiting the rental or occupancy of the dwellings to its members or from giving preference to its members.</text>
  </level>
</section>
