§ 216.7 — Unfair practices — accommodations or services

Iowa § 216.7

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VI: HUMAN SERVICES
• Ch. 216: OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS

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1. It shall be an unfair or discriminatory practice for any owner, lessee, sublessee,
proprietor, manager, or superintendent of any public accommodation or any agent or
employee thereof:
a. To refuse or deny to any person because of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation,
national origin, religion, or disability the accommodations, advantages, facilities, services, or
privileges thereof, or otherwise to discriminate against any person because of race, creed,
color, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, or disability in the furnishing of such
accommodations, advantages, facilities, services, or privileges.
b. To directly or indirectly advertise or in any other manner indicate or publicize that the
patronage of persons of any particular race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, national
origin, religion, or disability is unwelcome, objectionable, not acceptable, or not solicited.
2. This section shall not apply to:
a. Any bona fide religious institution with respect to any qualifications the institution may

impose based on religion or sexual orientation when such qualifications are related to a bona
fide religious purpose.
b. The rental or leasing to transient individuals of less than six rooms within a single
housing accommodation by the occupant or owner of such housing accommodation if the
occupant or owner or members of that person’s family reside therein.
3. This section shall not require any state or local government unit or tax-supported
district to provide for sex reassignment surgery or any other cosmetic, reconstructive,
or plastic surgery procedure related to transsexualism, hermaphroditism, gender identity
disorder, or body dysmorphic disorder.

Legislative History

[C97, §5008; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13251; C46, 50, 54, 58, §735.1; C66, 71, §105A.6; C73, §601A.6; C75, 77, 79, 81, §601A.7]