(a) No owner having the right to sell, rent, lease, or manage a housing accommodation
as defined in § 34-37-3, or an agent of any of these, shall, directly or indirectly, make, or cause to be
made, any written or oral inquiry concerning the race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, lawful source of income,
military status as a veteran with an honorable discharge or an honorable or general
administrative discharge, servicemember in the armed forces, country of ancestral
origin, or disability, age, familial status nor make any written or oral inquiry concerning
whether a tenant or applicant or a member of the household is, or has been, or is
threatened with being the victim of domestic abuse, or whether a tenant or applicant
has obtained, or sought, or is seeking relief from any court in the form of a restraining
order for protection from domestic abuse, of any prospective purchaser, occupant,
or tenant of the housing accommodation; directly or indirectly, refuse to sell, rent,
lease, let, or otherwise deny to or withhold from any individual the housing accommodation
because of the race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, marital status, lawful source of income, military status as a veteran
with an honorable discharge or an honorable or general administrative discharge, servicemember
in the armed forces, country of ancestral origin, disability, age, or familial status
of the individual or the race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, marital status, lawful source of income, military status as a veteran
with an honorable discharge or an honorable or general administrative discharge, servicemember
in the armed forces, country of ancestral origin