housing and employment director (the director) and the Board to encourage conciliation of charges: After a finding and any time until final hearing by the board, the director will work with the parties in an attempt to conciliate the charge. Metropolitan Dade County, Fla., Code ch. 11A, art. I, § 11A-8(g) (1981). We find that the aim of the drafters of this article in making some provisions for penal sanctions was not to punish a violator, but rather was to enable the Board to more efficiently regulate discrimination in housing. See Futura. Accordingly, we hold that chapter 11A, article I, of the Metropolitan Dade County Code is not penal in nature for purposes of determining insurance coverage in the present case. See Laufman v. Oakley Bldg. & Loan Co., 408 F.Supp. 489 (S.D.Ohio 1976) (<HOLDING>); Marrano Construction Co. v. New York State
holding that the provisions of the federal fair housing act 42 usca  36013631 1977 which are similar to the provisions in the dade county code are not penal in nature or effect recognizing provisions of the fair housing act that forbid false statements that housing is unavailable to a person because of his race holding that fha claim survives death of a defendant because the provisions are remedial not penal holding that such provisions are valid holding that the hearing provisions of the ina supersede the provisions of the apa