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that nothing contained in the subsection shall impair the scope or effectiveness of the exceptions contained in Section 4 of this ordinance. (3) Unlawful housing practices - Brokerage Services It shall be unlawful and a discriminatory housing practice to deny any person access to or membership or participation in any multiple listing service, organization, or facility related to the business of selling or renting housing, or to discriminate against such person in the terms or conditions of such access, membership or participation because of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, marital status, familial status, handicap, or age. (4) Nothing in Section 4 hereof shall be construed to require any person renting or selling a dwelling to modify, alter, or adjust the dwelling in order to provide physical accessibility except as otherwise required by law. SECTION 4. EXEMPTIONS AND EXCEPTIONS. (1) Nothing contained in Section 3 hereof shall prohibit a religious organization, association, or society, or any nonprofit charitable or educational institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled by, or in conjunction with, a religious organization, association, or society, from limiting or from advertising the sale, rental or occupancy of housing which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same religion, or from giving preference to such persons. Nor shall anything in this ordinance prohibit a private club not in fact open to the public, which as an incident to its primary purpose or purposes provides lodging which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose, from limiting the rental or occupancy of such lodging to its members or from giving preference to its members. (2) Nothing in Section 3 hereof, other than subsection (g) of subsection (1) thereof, shall apply to: a. Any single-family house sold or rented by an owner, provided that such private individual owner does not own more than three such single-family houses at any one time; provided further that in the case of the sale of any such single-family house by a private individual owner not residing in such house at the time of such sale or who was not the most recent resident of such house prior to such sale, the exemption granted by this subsection shall apply only with respect to such sale within any twenty-four month period; provided further that such bona fide private individual owner does not own any interest in, nor is there owned or reserved on such owner's behalf, under any express or voluntary agreement,