(A) The City Council adopts and incorporates into its program activities, the regulations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1983, as required by 31 U.S.C. 6701 through 6724, the Revenue Sharing Act. In so doing the city asserts that, with respect to discrimination against a qualified handicapped individual, it shall:
(1) Not exclude a qualified handicapped individual from participation in programs or activities open to the general public, regardless of the availability of permissibly separate or different programs or activities designed especially for the handicapped;
(2) Administer programs and activities in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of qualified handicapped individuals;
(3) Take appropriate steps to ensure that communications with applicants, employees, beneficiaries, and the general public are available to persons with impaired vision or hearing, through means such as brailled or taped material, telecommunication devices, televised information, or other media;
(4) Take the appropriate steps to ensure that the public hearings are accessible to qualified handicapped individuals and that notice of such hearings is made available to individuals with impaired vision and hearing, through means such as telecommunication devices, brailled or taped material, televised information, qualified sign language interpreters, or other media;
(5) Provide a qualified handicapped individual with an aid, benefit, or service that is as effective in affording equal opportunity to obtain the same result, to gain the same benefit, or to reach the same level of achievement as that provided to others;
(6) Not provide a different or separate aid, benefit, or service to qualified handicapped individuals or to any class of qualified handicapped individuals than is provided to others unless such action is necessary to provide qualified handicapped individuals with aid, benefits, or services that are as effective as those provided to others;
(7) Not aid or perpetuate discrimination against a qualified handicapped individual by funding an agency, organization, or person that discriminates on the basis of handicap in providing any aid, benefit, or service to beneficiaries of the program or activity.
(B) The city shall not, directly or through contractual or other arrange-ments, utilize criteria or methods of administration that:
(1) Have the effect of subjecting qualified handicapped individuals to discrimination on the basis of their handicaps;
(2) Have the purpose or effect of defeating or substantially impairing accomplishment of the objectives of this program with respect to handicapped individuals; or
(3) Perpetuate the discrimi-nation of another department of the recipient government if both departments are subject to common administrative control or are agencies of the same recipient government.
(Res. 23-1984, passed 10-15-84)