{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-25-25-1452","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 25, § 25-1452","heading":"Discriminatory housing practices - Categories or classes","body":"of persons protected - Jurisdiction of Attorney General's Office of\n\nCivil Rights Enforcement.\n\nA. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for\n\nany person, or any agent or employee of such person:\n\n1. To refuse to sell or rent after the making of a bona fide\n\noffer, or to refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of any\n\nhousing, or otherwise make unavailable or deny any housing because\n\nof race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, familial\n\nstatus, or disability;\n\n2. To discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions,\n\nor privileges of sale or rental of housing, or in the provision of\n\nservices or facilities in connection with any housing because of\n\nrace, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, familial\n\nstatus, or disability;\n\n3. To make, print, publish, or cause to be made, printed, or\n\npublished any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to\n\nthe sale or rental of housing that indicates any preference,\n\nlimitation, discrimination, or intention to make any such\n\npreference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color,\n\nreligion, gender, national origin, age, familial status, or\n\ndisability;\n\n4. To represent to any person, for reasons of discrimination,\n\nthat any housing is not available for inspection, sale, or rental\n\nwhen such housing is in fact so available because of race, color,\n\nreligion, gender, national origin, age, familial status, or\n\ndisability;\n\n5. To deny any person access to, or membership or participation\n\nin, a multiple-listing service, real estate brokers' organization or\n\nother service, organization, or facility relating to the business of\n\nselling or renting dwellings, or discriminate against a person in\n\nthe terms or conditions of access, membership, or participation in\n\nsuch an organization, service, or facility because of race, color,\n\nreligion, gender, national origin, age, familial status, or\n\ndisability;\n\n6. To include in any transfer, sale, rental, or lease of\n\nhousing any restrictive covenant that discriminates, or for any\n\nperson to honor or exercise, or attempt to honor or exercise, any\n\ndiscriminatory covenant pertaining to housing because of race,\n\ncolor, religion, gender, national origin, age, familial status, or\n\ndisability;\n\n7. To refuse to consider the income of both applicants when\n\nboth applicants seek to buy or lease housing because of race, color,\n\nreligion, gender, national origin, age, familial status, or\n\ndisability;\n\n8. To refuse to consider as a valid source of income any public\n\nassistance, alimony, or child support, awarded by a court, when that\n\nsource can be verified as to its amount, length of time received,\n\nregularity, or receipt because of race, color, religion, gender,\n\nnational origin, age, familial status, or disability;\n\n9. To discriminate against a person in the terms, conditions,\n\nor privileges relating to the obtaining or use of financial\n\nassistance for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation,\n\nrepair, or maintenance of any housing because of race, color,\n\nreligion, gender, national origin, age, familial status, or\n\ndisability;\n\n10. To discharge, demote, or discriminate in matters of\n\ncompensation or working conditions against any employee or agent\n\nbecause of the obedience of the employee or agent to the provisions\n\nof this section;\n\n11. To solicit or attempt to solicit the listing of housing for\n\nsale or lease, by door to door solicitation, in person, or by\n\ntelephone, or by distribution of circulars, if one of the purposes\n\nis to change the racial composition of the neighborhood;\n\n12. To knowingly induce or attempt to induce another person to\n\ntransfer an interest in real property, or to discourage another\n\nperson from purchasing real property, by representations regarding\n\nthe existing or potential proximity of real property owned, used, or\n\noccupied by persons of any particular race, color, religion, gender,\nposes\n\nis to change the racial composition of the neighborhood;\n\n12. To knowingly induce or attempt to induce another person to\n\ntransfer an interest in real property, or to discourage another\n\nperson from purchasing real property, by representations regarding\n\nthe existing or potential proximity of real property owned, used, or\n\noccupied by persons of any particular race, color, religion, gender,\n\nnational origin, age, familial status or disability, or to represent\n\nthat such existing or potential proximity shall or may result in:\n\na. the lowering of property values,\n\nb. a change in the racial, religious, or ethnic character\n\nof the block, neighborhood, or area in which the\n\nproperty is located,\n\nc. an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior in the\n\narea, or\n\nd. a decline in quality of the schools serving the area;\n\n13. To refuse to rent or lease housing to a blind, deaf, or\n\ndisabled person on the basis of the person's use or possession of a\n\nbona fide, properly trained guide, signal, or service dog;\n\n14. To demand the payment of an additional nonrefundable fee or\n\nan unreasonable deposit for rent from a blind, deaf, or disabled\n\nperson for such dog. Such blind, deaf, or disabled person may be\n\nliable for any damage done to the dwelling by such dog;\n\n15. a. to discriminate in the sale or rental or otherwise\n\nmake available or deny a dwelling to any buyer or\n\nrenter because of a disability of:\n\n(1) that buyer or renter,\n\n(2) a person residing in or intending to reside in\n\nthat dwelling after it is sold, rented, or made\n\navailable, or\n\n(3) any person associated with that buyer or renter,\n\nor\n\nb. to discriminate against any person in the terms,\n\nconditions, or privileges of sale or rental of a\n\ndwelling or in the provision of services or facilities\n\nin connection with the dwelling because of a\n\ndisability of:\n\n(1) that person,\n\n(2) a person residing in or intending to reside in\n\nthat dwelling after it is so sold, rented, or\n\nmade available, or\n\n(3) any person associated with that person;\n\n16. For purposes of disability discrimination in housing\n\npursuant to Sections 1451 through 1453 of this title, discrimination\n\nincludes:\n\na. a refusal to permit, at the expense of the disabled\n\nperson, reasonable modifications of existing premises\n\noccupied or to be occupied by the person if the\n\nmodifications may be necessary to afford the person\n\nfull enjoyment of the premises, provided that such\n\nperson also provides a surety bond guaranteeing\n\nrestoration of the premises to their prior condition,\n\nif necessary to make the premises suitable for\n\nnondisabled tenants,\n\nb. a refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules,\n\npolicies, practices, or services, when the\n\naccommodations may be necessary to afford the person\n\nequal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling, or\n\nc. in connection with the design and construction of\n\ncovered multifamily dwellings for first occupancy\n\nthirty (30) months after the date of enactment of the\n\nfederal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 (Public\n\nLaw 100-430), a failure to design and construct those\n\ndwellings in a manner that:\n\n(1) the public use and common use portions of the\n\ndwellings are readily accessible to and usable by\n\ndisabled persons,\n\n(2) all the doors designed to allow passage into and\n\nwithin all premises within the dwellings are\n\nsufficiently wide to allow passage by disabled\n\npersons in wheelchairs, and\n\n(3) all premises within the dwellings contain the\n\nfollowing features of adaptive design:\n\n(a) an accessible route into and through the\n\ndwelling,\n\n(b) light switches, electrical outlets,\n\nthermostats, and other environmental\n\ncontrols in accessible locations,\n\n(c) reinforcements in bathroom walls to allow\n\nlater installation of grab bars, and\nthin the dwellings contain the\n\nfollowing features of adaptive design:\n\n(a) an accessible route into and through the\n\ndwelling,\n\n(b) light switches, electrical outlets,\n\nthermostats, and other environmental\n\ncontrols in accessible locations,\n\n(c) reinforcements in bathroom walls to allow\n\nlater installation of grab bars, and\n\n(d) usable kitchen and bathrooms so that an\n\nindividual in a wheelchair can maneuver\n\nabout the space,\n\n(4) compliance with the appropriate requirements of\n\nthe American National Standard for buildings and\n\nfacilities providing accessibility and usability\n\nfor physically disabled people, commonly cited as\n\n\"ANSI A 117.1\", suffices to satisfy the\n\nrequirements of division (3) of this\n\nsubparagraph,\n\n(5) as used in this subsection, the term \"covered\n\nmultifamily dwellings\" means:\n\n(a) buildings consisting of four or more units\n\nif the buildings have one or more elevators,\n\nand\n\n(b) ground floor units in other buildings\n\nconsisting of four or more units,\n\n(6) nothing in this subsection requires that a\n\ndwelling be made available to an individual whose\n\ntenancy would constitute a direct threat to the\n\nhealth or safety of other individuals or whose\n\ntenancy would result in substantial physical\n\ndamage to the property of others; or\n\n17. a. A person whose business includes engaging in\n\nresidential real estate related transactions may not\n\ndiscriminate against a person in making a real estate\n\nrelated transaction available or in the terms or\n\nconditions of a real estate related transaction\n\nbecause of race, color, religion, gender, disability,\n\nfamilial status, national origin or age.\n\nb. In this section, \"residential real estate related\n\ntransaction\" means:\n\n(1) making or purchasing loans or providing other\n\nfinancial assistance:\n\n(a) to purchase, construct, improve, repair, or\n\nmaintain a dwelling, or\n\n(b) to secure residential real estate, or\n\n(2) selling, brokering, or appraising residential\n\nreal property.\n\nB. This section does not prohibit discrimination against a\n\nperson because the person has been convicted under federal law or\n\nthe law of any state of the illegal manufacture or distribution of a\n\ncontrolled substance.\n\nC. No other categories or classes of persons are protected\n\npursuant to Sections 1451 through 1453 of this title. The Attorney\n\nGeneral's Office of Civil Rights Enforcement shall have no authority\n\nor jurisdiction to act on complaints based on any kind of\n\ndiscrimination other than those kinds of discrimination prohibited\n\npursuant to Section 1101 et seq. of this title or any other\n\nspecifically authorized by law.","path":["OK Code","Title 25"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os25.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"4afaf81ef937fd03083cafdf9e8ea46efbcbb93a137fa4d4fc34ba14eef5720b","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-25-25-1451","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-25-25-1453"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}