A.    If the commission determines at a hearing under Section 9.28.380 that a respondent has engaged in or is about to engage in a discriminatory housing practice, the commission may order the appropriate relief, including actual

damages, reasonable attorney's fees, court costs and other injunctive or equitable relief.

    B.    To vindicate the public interest, the commission may assess a civil penalty against the respondent in an amount that does not exceed the following:

    1.    Ten thousand dollars if the respondent has not been adjudged by order of the commission or a court to have committed a prior discriminatory housing practice.

    2.    Except as provided by subsection C of this section, twenty-five thousand dollars if the respondent has been adjudged by order of the commission or a court to have committed one other discriminatory housing practice during the

five-year period ending on the date of the filing of the finding of probable cause.

    3.    Except as provided by subsection C of this section, fifty thousand dollars if the respondent has been adjudged by order of the commission or a court to have committed two or more discriminatory housing practices during the seven-year

period ending on the date of the filing of the finding of probable cause.    C.    If the acts constituting the discriminatory housing practice that is the object of the finding of probable cause are committed by the same individual who has been previously adjudged to have committed acts constituting a

discriminatory housing practice, the civil penalties in subsections (B) (2) and (3) of this section may be imposed without regard to the period of time within which any other discriminatory housing practice occurred.

    D.    The commission may sue to recover a civil penalty due under this section. (Ord. 92-45 (part), 1992; prior code § 12-3.5-5-15)