Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter, the following practices shall not be violations of this chapter:
(a) For a religious organization to restrict the occupancy of any of its housing facilities or accommodations which are operated as a direct part of religious activities to persons of the denomination involved or to restrict employment opportunities for officers, religious instructors and clergy to persons of that denomination. It is also permissible for a religious organization to restrict employment opportunities, educational facilities, housing facilities, and homeless shelters or dormitories that are operated as a direct part of its religious activities to persons who are members of or who conform to the moral tenets of that religious organization.
(b) For the owner of an owner-occupied, one-family or two-family dwelling, or a housing facility or public accommodation facility, respectively, devoted entirely to the housing and accommodation of individuals of one sex, to restrict occupancy and use on the basis of sex.
(c) To limit occupancy in a housing project or to provide public accommodations or employment privileges or assistance to persons of low income, persons over fifty-five years of age or disabled persons.
(d) To engage in a bona fide effort to establish an affirmative action program to improve opportunities in employment for minorities and women consistent with applicable state and federal law.
(e) To discriminate based on a person's age when such discrimination is required by state, federal, or local law.
(f) To refuse to enter into a contract with an unemancipated minor.
(g) To refuse to admit to a place of public accommodation serving alcoholic beverages a person under the legal age for purchasing alcoholic beverages.
(h) To refuse to admit to a place persons under eighteen years of age to a business providing entertainment or selling literature which the operator of said business deems unsuitable for minors.
(i) For an educational institution to limit the use of its facilities to those affiliated with such institution.
(j) To provide discounts on products or service to students, or on the basis of age.
(k) To discriminate in any arrangement for the shared ownership, lease or residency of a dwelling unit.
(l) For a governmental institution to restrict any of its facilities or to restrict employment opportunities based on duly adopted institutional policies that conform to federal and state laws and regulations.
(m) To restrict participation in an instructional program, athletic event or on an athletic team on the basis of age, sex, height, or weight.
(n) To restrict membership in a private club that is not open to the public except to the extent that private clubs which permit members to invite guests on the premises are not exempted as it concerns a member's guest.
(o) To the employment of an individual by one's family.
(p) To the use of marital status or family status limitations in a health or pension plan if such limitations conform to federal and state laws and regulations.
(q) To the rental of housing facilities in a building which contains dwelling units for not more than two families living independently of each other if the owner of the building or a member of the owner's family resides in one of the dwelling units, or to the rental of a room or rooms in a single-family dwelling by an individual if the lessor or a member of the lessor's family resides in the dwelling.
(Ord. 8-2013. Passed 9-3-13.)