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Ordinance No. <br /> (1) The Commission shall state its fording of fact after a hearing, and, if the <br /> Commission finds a person has engaged in an unlawful discriminatory practice, it may <br /> cause to be served on such person an order requiring such person to cease and desist from <br /> the unlawful discriminatory practice and requiring such person to take further affirmative <br /> action as will effectuate the purposes of this article, including but not limited to the power <br /> to restore charging party's losses incurred as a result of discriminatory treatment, as the <br /> Commission may deem necessary to assure justice. The Commission may require the <br /> posting of notice setting forth the public policy of Indiana concerning civil rights and the <br /> respondent's compliance with said policy in places of public accommodations; and it may <br /> require proof of compliance to be filed by the respondent at periodic intervals. <br /> (A) Except in housing cases which are separately treated in sub-part (C) of this <br /> section, the Commission may impose a penalty upon any respondent of one <br /> thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for the first and second violation of this <br /> article within a five-year period, and may further impose a penalty of two <br /> thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for three (3) or more violations of this <br /> article within a five-year period. <br /> (B) When applied to discrimination in employment, the Commission shall also <br /> have power, to the extent consistent with state law , to restore charging party's <br /> losses by awarding damages including wages, salary, commissions, fringe <br /> benefits in an amount not to exceed that lost over a two-year period. For <br /> discrimination in employment and housing, the Commission shall also have the <br /> power_ to-the extent consistent with state law, to award damages which will <br /> compensate charging party for future pecuniary loss, emotional pain, suffering, <br /> inconvenience, anguish, loss of enjoyment of life and other non-pecuniary losses, <br /> costs and attorney fees. <br /> (C) To vindicate the public interest in cases of housing discrimination, the <br /> Commission may assess a civil penalty of two thousand five hundred dollars <br /> ($2,500.00)for each commission of a discriminatory housing practice. <br /> (D) The Commission may sue to recover a civil penalty due under this section. <br /> [P.L. 66-1990, § 2.] <br /> (2) Judicial review of any decision of the Commission as referred to in this article may <br /> be obtained under IC 4-21.5-1 in the same manner as if the decision was that of a State <br /> agency. However, only in those cases involving discriminatory housing practices as <br /> prohibited by this Chapter, a complainant, a respondent, or an aggrieved person on whose <br /> behalf the complaint was filed may elect to have decided in a civil action those claims <br /> asserted in a finding of probable cause. Such election must be made not later than twenty <br /> (20)days after the date of receipt by the electing person of service under this chapter,and <br /> such person shall give written notice to the Commission and all other complainants and <br /> respondents to whom the finding of probable cause relates. Such civil action shall be filed <br /> 6 <br />