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 Fairfax County
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 11. Human Rights Ordinance.
 Article 1. In General.

§ 11-1-1. Statement of policy.  

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  • The continued harmonious relations among all people are hereby declared essential to the welfare, health, and safety of the residents of Fairfax County. It is contrary to the public policy of the County to permit those conditions to arise or continue unabated which impede the peaceful coexistence of all people in the County, threaten peace and good order and adversely affect the physical, economic and social well-being of the residents. It is the duty of this government to exercise all available means and every power at its command to prevent the same so as to protect its residents from such perils. To this end, it is essential that the government of this County assume the initiative for repairing the consequences of past denials of equal opportunities, preventing denials of these opportunities in the future, and eliminating the underlying causes of discrimination. It is the dual purpose of this Chapter to institute an affirmative human rights program of positive efforts to eliminate discrimination through education and outreach and to provide citizens recourse for discriminatory acts. Therefore, in order to secure and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of this County, it is declared to be the policy of the County to ensure that all persons be afforded equal opportunity to participate, on the basis of personal merit, in the social, cultural, economic, and other phases of community life free from any discrimination, and to that end the governing body adopts this Chapter of the Code of the County of Fairfax, Virginia; and it is further declared to be the policy of the County that any provision in a deed, mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument affecting title to or any interest in land or housing recorded in the land records of this County which purports to restrict or affect, on the basis of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, disability, or familial status or the holding, occupancy or transfer of any interest in land, shall, on and after the effective date of this Chapter be wholly invalid for any purpose.

    (39-00-11; 46-02-11; 33-10-11.)

(39-00-11; 46-02-11; 33-10-11.)