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 Carrizo Springs
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 18. HOUSING
 Article IV. FAIR HOUSING

  § 18-68. Complaints.  

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  • (a)

    Any person who claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice or who believes that he will be irrevocably injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur (hereafter referred to as the "person aggrieved") may file a complaint with the city manager. Such complaints shall be in writing and shall identify the person alleged to have committed or alleged to be about to commit the discriminatory housing practice and shall set forth the particulars thereof. The city manager is directed to prepare and adopt from time to time standard complaint forms and to furnish them without charge to any person aggrieved. The city manager and employees of his office may assist in the clerical preparation of such complaints.

    (b)

    The city manager shall receive and accept notification and referral of complaints from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the provisions of title VIII of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Public Law 90-284 and shall treat such complaints in the same manner as complaints filed directly by the person aggrieved.

    (c)

    If, in the course of any investigation as provided in section 18-69 hereof on a complaint filed with or referred to the city manager, he shall receive credible evidence and shall have probable cause to believe that the person named in such complaint has committed a discriminatory housing practice on grounds not stated in such complaint, the city manager may prepare and file a such supplementary complaint shall thereafter be treated, in the same manner as an original complaint filed by a person aggrieved.

    (d)

    If at any time the city manager shall receive or discover credible evidence and shall have probable cause to believe that any person have committed a discriminatory housing practice as to which no complaint has been filed or is about to be filed, the city manager may prepare and file a complaint upon his own motion and in his own name and such complaint shall thereafter be treated in the same manner as a complaint filed by a person aggrieved.

    (e)

    Upon the filing or referral of any complaint, the city manager shall furnish a copy of the same to the person named in the complaint.

    (f)

    A complaint under subsections (a), (c), and (e) of this section shall be filed within 180 days after the alleged discriminatory housing practice occurred. Complaints shall state the facts upon which the allegations of discriminatory housing practice are based. Complaints maybe reasonable and fairly amended at any time. A respondent may file an answer to the complaint against him and, with the leave of the city manager, which shall be granted whenever it would be reasonable and fair to do so, may amend his answer at any time. Both complaints and answers shall be signed.

(Ord. No. 593, § 7, 2-8-2000)