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regard to race, religion, color, handicap, sex, national

origin, ancestry, age, or disabled veteran or Vietnam era

veteran status;

(7) To provide al citizens of the City of Indianapolis and

Marion County equal opportunity for acquisition through

purchase or rental of real property including, but not

limited to, housing without regard to race, sex, religion or

national origin; and

(8) To prevent and prohibit al discriminatory practices of

sexual subordination or inequality through pornography.

Sec. 16-2. Nondiscrimination clauses.

(1) Every contract to which one of the parties is the city or the

county, or any board, department or office of either the city or

county, including franchises granted to public utilities, shal

contain a provision requiring the governmental contractor and

subcontractors not to discriminate against any employee or

applicant for employment in the performance of the contract,

with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions or privileges of

employment, or any mat er directly or indirectly related to

employment, because of race, sex, religion, color, national

origin, ancestry, age, handicap, disabled veteran status and

Vietnam era veteran status. Breach of this provision may be

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regarded as a material breach of the contract

(2) Al applications, postings, announcements, and

advertisements recruiting applicants for employment with the

city or county shal conspicuously post in the bottom margin of

such recruiting bids a clause as fol ows: “An Af irmative Action

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. ”

Sec. 16-3. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the fol owing terms shal have the

meanings ascribed to them in this section:

(a) Acquisition of real estate shal mean the sale, rental, lease, sublease, construction or financing, including negotiations

and any other activities or procedures incident thereto, of:

(1) Any building, structure, apartment, single room or

suite of rooms or other portion of a building, occupied

as or designed or intended for occupancy as living

quarters by one or more families or single individuals;

(2) Any building, structure or portion thereof, or any

improved or unimproved land utilized or designed or

intended for utilization, for business, commercial,

industrial or agricultural purposes;

(3) Any vacant or unimproved land of ered for sale or

lease for any purpose whatsoever.

(b) Appointing authorities shal mean and include the mayor,

city-county council and such other person or agency as may