Code of Virginia - Title 36 Housing - Chapter 5.1 Virginia Fair Housing Law

36-96.1 Declaration of policy
A. This chapter shall be known and referred to as the Virginia Fair Housing Law. B. It is the policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia ...

36-96.1:1 Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Aggrieved person" means any person who (i) claims to have been injured by ...

36-96.2 Exemptions
A. Except as provided in subdivision A 3 of § 36-96.3 and subsections A, B, and C of § 36-96.6, this chapter shall not apply ...

36-96.3 Unlawful discriminatory housing practices
A. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for any person: 1. To refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona ...

36-96.4 Discrimination in residential real estate-related transactions; unlawful practices by lenders, insu...
A. It shall be unlawful for any person or other entity, including any lending institution, whose business includes engaging in residential real estate-related transactions, to ...

36-96.5 Interference with enjoyment of rights of others under this chapter
It shall be an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for any person to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment ...

36-96.6 Certain restrictive covenants void; instruments containing such covenants
A. Any restrictive covenant and any related reversionary interest, purporting to restrict occupancy or ownership of property on the basis of race, color, religion, national ...

36-96.7 Familial status protection not applicable to housing for older persons
A. Nothing in this chapter regarding unlawful discrimination because of familial status shall apply to housing for older persons. As used in this section, "housing ...

36-96.8 Powers of Real Estate Board and Fair Housing Board
A. The Real Estate Board and the Fair Housing Board, as provided in this chapter, have the power for the purposes of this chapter to ...

36-96.9 Procedures for receipt or initiation of complaint; notice to parties; filing of answer
A. A complaint under § 36-96.8 shall be filed with the Board in writing within one year after the alleged discriminatory housing practice occurred or ...

36-96.10 Procedures for investigation
A. The Board shall commence proceedings with respect to a complaint within thirty days after receipt of the complaint, and shall complete the investigation within ...

36-96.11 Reasonable cause determination and effect
The Board shall, within 100 days after the filing of a complaint, determine, based on the facts and after consultation with the Office of the ...

36-96.12 No reasonable cause determination and effect
If the Board determines that no reasonable cause exists to believe that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred or is about to occur, the Board ...

36-96.13 Conciliation
During the period beginning with the filing of such complaint and ending with the filing of a charge or a dismissal by the Board, the ...

36-96.14 Issuance of a charge
Upon failure to resolve a complaint by conciliation and after consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, the Board shall issue a charge on ...

36-96.15 Prompt judicial action
If the Board concludes at any time following the filing of a complaint and after consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, that prompt ...

36-96.16 Civil action by Attorney General upon referral of charge by the Real Estate Board
A. Not later than thirty days after a charge is referred by the Board to the Attorney General under § 36-96.14, the Attorney General shall ...

36-96.17 Civil action by Attorney General; matters involving the legality of any local zoning or other land ...
A. If the Board determines, after consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, that an alleged discriminatory housing practice involves the legality of any ...

36-96.18 Civil action; enforcement by private parties
A. An aggrieved person may commence a civil action in an appropriate United States district court or state court not later than two years after ...

36-96.19 Witness fees
Witnesses summoned by a subpoena under this chapter shall be entitled to the same witness and mileage fees as witnesses in proceedings in the courts ...

36-96.20 Additional powers of the Real Estate Board; action on real estate licenses
A. In any case in which the Board has received or initiated a complaint and conducted an investigation of any violation of this chapter and ...

36-96.21 Powers of counties, cities and towns
A. Any county, city or town which has any ordinance in effect on January 1, 1991, enacted under the Virginia Fair Housing Law (§ 36-86 ...

36-96.22 Application of chapter
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect the other ...

36-96.23 Construction of law
Nothing in this chapter shall abridge the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq.) as amended. (1991, c. 557.) ...