§ 34-37-2 Right to equal housing
opportunities – Civil rights. –
The right of all individuals in the state to equal housing opportunities and
regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, marital status, country of ancestral origin, disability, age,
familial status, or regardless of the fact that a tenant or applicant, or a
member of the household, is or has been, or is threatened with being, the
victim of domestic abuse, or that the tenant or applicant has obtained, or
sought, or is seeking, relief from any court in the form of a restraining order
for protection from domestic abuse, is hereby recognized as, and declared to
be, a civil right. Nothing in this section shall prevent a landlord from
proceeding with eviction action against a tenant who fails to comply with
§ 34-18-24(7).
(P.L. 1965, ch. 27, § 1; P.L. 1977, ch. 214, § 1; P.L. 1979, ch. 144,
§ 3; P.L. 1988, ch. 455, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 398, § 1; P.L.
1995, ch. 32, § 2; P.L. 1997, ch. 150, § 8; P.L. 2001, ch. 340,
§ 2; P.L. 2002, ch. 118, § 2; P.L. 2002, ch. 224, § 2.)