Exemptions to Fair
Housing Act per section 3603 (b)
(b) Exemptions
Nothing in section
3604 of this title (other than subsection (c))
shall apply to -
(1) any single-family house sold or rented by
an owner:
Provided, That such
private individual owner does not own more
than three such
single-family houses at any one time: Provided
further, That in the
case of the sale of any such single-family
house by a private
individual owner not residing in such house at
the time of such sale
or who was not the most recent resident of
such house prior to
such sale, the exemption granted by this
subsection shall apply
only with respect to one such sale within
any twenty-four month
period: Provided further, That such bona
fide private
individual owner does not own any interest in, nor
is there owned or
reserved on his behalf, under any express or
voluntary agreement,
title to or any right to all or a portion of
the proceeds from the sale or rental of, more
than three such
single-family houses
at any one time: Provided further, That
after December 31,
1969, the sale or rental of any such
single-family house
shall be excepted from the application of
this subchapter only
if such house is sold or rented (A) without
the use in any manner
of the sales or rental facilities or the
sales or rental
services of any real estate broker, agent, or
salesman, or of such
facilities or services of any person in the
business of selling or
renting dwellings, or of any employee or
agent of any such
broker, agent, salesman, or person and (B)
without the
publication, posting or mailing, after notice, of any
advertisement or
written notice in violation of section 3604(c)
of this title; but
nothing in this proviso shall prohibit the use
of attorneys, escrow
agents, abstractors, title companies, and
other such
professional assistance as necessary to perfect or
transfer the title, or
(2) rooms or units
in dwellings containing living quarters
occupied or intended to be occupied by no
more than four families
living independently
of each other, if the owner actually
maintains and occupies
one of such living quarters as his
residence.
(c) Business of selling
or renting dwellings defined
For the purposes of
subsection (b) of this section, a person
shall be deemed to be in
the business of selling or renting
dwellings if -
(1) he has, within
the preceding twelve months, participated as
principal in three or
more transactions involving the sale or
rental of any dwelling
or any interest therein, or
(2) he has, within
the preceding twelve months, participated as
agent, other than in
the sale of his own personal residence in
providing sales or
rental facilities or sales or rental services
in two or more
transactions involving the sale or rental of any
dwelling or any
interest therein, or
(3) he is the owner
of any dwelling designed or intended for
occupancy by, or
occupied by, five or more families.
-SOURCE-
(Pub. L. 90-284, title
VIII, Sec. 803, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 82.)
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SECTION
REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is
referred to in sections 3604, 3617 of this title.