§ 13-51. Discrimination in the financing of housing.

It shall be an unlawful discriminatory housing practice for any bank, building and loan association, insurance company or other corporation, association, firm or enterprise whose business consists in whole or in part in the making of real estate loans, to deny a loan or other financial assistance to any financially qualified person applying therefor for the purpose of purchasing, construction, improving, repairing, or maintaining a dwelling or to discriminate against him in the fixing of the amount, interest rate, duration, or other terms or conditions of such loan or other financial assistance, because of the race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry of such person or any person associated with him in connection with such loan or other financial assistance, or the purposes of such loan or other financial assistance, or of the present or prospective owners, lessees, tenants, or occupants, of the dwelling or dwellings in relation to which such loan or other financial assistance is to be made or given; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall impair the scope or effectiveness of the exceptions in section 13-53 hereof.

(Code 1962, § 9½-16)

Cross reference

Licenses and business regulations, Ch. 14.