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- Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1974]
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- 1974
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- ["North Carolina."]
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1974]
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Session Laws — 1973
CHAPTER 989
religion, or from giving preference to such persons, unless membership in the
religion is restricted on account of race, color, sex or national origin.
This section shall not apply to ( 1 ) any single-family house sold or rented by
an owner if the private individual owner does not own more than three single¬
family houses at any one time, the house is sold or rented without the use in any
manner of the sales or rental facilities or services of a real estate broker, agent or
salesman, or the sales or rental facilities or services of any person in the business
of selling or renting housing units, and the house is sold or rented without the
publication or mailing of an advertisement in violation of Section 9-5(c) above,
except that in the case of the sale of a single-family house by a private individual
owner who was not the most recent resident of the house prior to its sale, the
exemption granted by this paragraph applies only to one such sale within any
twenty-four month period; (2) rooms or units in housing units 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 the living quarters as his residence; or (3) the rooming placement of
students by private and public institutions of higher education.
“Sec. 9-6. Time limitation on bringing charge. — Any charge of an unlawful
practice under this chapter must be filed with the Durham Human Relations
Commission within 180 days from the date of the alleged discriminatory action.
“Article 2. Durham Human Relations Commission.
“Sec. 9-7. Commission established; membership; organization. — Within six
months after the establishment of the Durham government, the Board of
Government shall establish the Durham Human Relations Commission to
replace the previously existing Human Relations Commission of the City of
Durham.
(a) The Durham Human Relations Commission shall be composed of
seventeen members appointed by the Board of Government to four-year
staggered terms. The Board shall appoint one member from each of the sixteen
electoral districts and a chairman at large.
(b) The Mayor shall nominate at least three persons for appointment as
chairman. Each member of the Board of Government shall nominate at least
three persons who reside in the electoral district from which the Board member
is elected for appointment as the Commission member from that district.
(c) The Board shall appoint one of the persons nominated by the Mayor as the
chairman of the Commission. The Board shall appoint one of the persons
nominated by each Board member as the Commission member from the Board
member's district.
The membership of the Durham Human Relations Commission shall consist
of no more than ten persons of the same race and no more than ten persons of the
same sex.
Initially the chairman and members appointed from Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 1 1 ,
13 and 15 shall be appointed to two-year terms; and members appointed from
Districts 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 shall be appointed to four-year terms.
Thereafter, all terms are four years.
(d) The Chairman shall select four hearing panels of four persons each from
the Commission. Three of the hearing panels shall be designated to consider and
hear complaints arising under Sections 9-3, 9-4, and 9-5 of this charter
respectively. The fourth panel may consider and hear any other complaints or
complaints arising under more than one section of the charter. The Chairman
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