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reasonable accommodation; <br />(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), it shall not be <br />an unlawful discriminatory practice for an educational institution operated <br />by a religious or denominational institution, or established for a bona fide <br />religious purpose, to admit students or program attendees on the basis of <br />that student's or attendee's religious or denominational affiliation or <br />preference. <br />516.06 CITY SERVICES, FACILITIES, TRANSACTIONS AND <br />CONTRACTS. <br />The City shall be bound by the provisions of this chapter to the <br />same extent as private individuals. All contractors proposing to, or <br />currently doing business with the City, shall abide by this ordinance. <br />516.07 GENERAL EXCEPTIONS <br />(a) Any practice which has a discriminatory effect and which <br />would otherwise be prohibited by this chapter shall not be deemed <br />unlawful if it can be established that the practice is not intentionally <br />devised to contravene the prohibitions of this chapter and there exists no <br />less discriminatory means of satisfying a business purpose. <br />(b) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, nothing contained in <br />this chapter shall be construed to prohibit promotional activities such as <br />senior citizen discounts and other similar practices designed primarily to <br />encourage participation by protected group. <br />(c) It shall not be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an <br />employer to observe the conditions of a bona fide seniority system or a <br />bona fide employee benefit system such as a retirement, pension or <br />insurance plan which is not a subterfuge or pretext to evade the purposes <br />of this chapter. <br />(d) It shall not be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any <br />person to carry out an affirmative action plan. An affirmative action plan <br />is any plan devised to effectuate remedial or corrective action taken in <br />response to past discriminatory practices, or as otherwise required by state <br />or federal law. <br />(e) Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to <br />prohibit selection or rejection based solely upon a bona fide occupational <br />qualification or a bona fide physical requirement. Nothing contained in <br />this chapter shall be deemed to prohibit a religious or denominational <br />institution from selecting or rejecting applicants and employees for non- <br />secular positions on the basis of the applicant's or employee's <br />conformance with the institution's religious or denominational principles. <br />If a party asserts that an otherwise unlawful practice is justified as a <br />permissible bona fide occupational qualification, or a permissible bona <br />fide physical requirement, that party shall have the burden of proving: <br />(1) That the discrimination is in fact a necessary result <br />of such a bona fide condition; and <br />10 <br />