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(3) Use any form of application for employment, or
personnel or membership blank containing questions or
entries directly or indirectly pertaining to race or
color, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental
disability, religion, age, ancestry or national origin,
any previous assertion of a claim or right under former
Title 39 or Title 39-A or any previous actions that are
protected under Title 26, chapter 7, subchapter V-B 5-
B. This section does not prohibit any officially
recognized government agency from keeping records
permitted to be kept under this Act in order to provide
free services to individuals requesting rehabilitation
or employment assistance;

 
(4) Print, publish or cause to be printed or published
any notice or advertisement relating to employment or
membership indicating any preference, limitation,
specification or discrimination based upon race or
color, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental

 
disability, religion, age, ancestry or national origin,
any previous assertion of a claim or right under former
Title 39 or Title 39-A or any previous actions that are
protected under Title 26, chapter 7, subchapter V-B 5-
B; or

 
(5) Establish, announce or follow a policy of denying
or limiting, through a quota system or otherwise,
employment or membership opportunities of any group
because of the race or color, sex, sexual orientation,
physical or mental disability, religion, age, ancestry
or national origin, the previous assertion of a claim
or right under former Title 39 or Title 39-A or because
of previous actions that are protected under Title 26,
chapter 7, subchapter V-B 5-B, of that group; or

 
Sec. 13. 5 MRSA §4581, first ¶, as amended by PL 1991, c. 99, §12, is
further amended to read:

 
The opportunity for an individual to secure decent housing in
accordance with the individual's ability to pay, and without
discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation,
physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry, national
origin or familial status is hereby recognized as and declared to
be a civil right.

 
Sec. 14. 5 MRSA §4582, 2nd, 3rd and 4th ¶¶, as amended by PL 1991, c. 99,
§14, are further amended to read:

 
For any owner, lessee, sublessee, managing agent or other
person having the right to sell, rent, lease or manage a housing


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