a. Statement of Domestic Partnership.
1. Domestic partners may make an official record of their domestic partnership by completing, signing, and submitting to the City Clerk a statement of domestic partnership. Persons submitting a statement of domestic partnership must declare under penalty of perjury that they meet the criteria set out in subsection 12-9A.1a. of this section.
2. The domestic partnership statement shall include the names of the domestic partners, the date on which they became each other's domestic partners, and the names of any dependents of the domestic partnership.
b. Registration of Additional Dependents. Domestic partners shall amend their registration statement whenever additional dependents become part of the domestic partnership. Only those dependents who are registered pursuant to this section shall be considered dependents of a domestic partnership.
c. Termination of Domestic Partnership. Either member of a domestic partnership may terminate the domestic partnership by filing a termination statement with the City Clerk. Termination of a domestic partnership shall become effective ninety (90) days after the termination statement is filed with the City Clerk, except that a domestic partnership shall terminate immediately upon the death of one of the partners; and provided, however, that all rights and benefits extended to dependents of a domestic partnership shall survive termination of the domestic partnership if the domestic partner through whom the dependent obtains the right or benefit continues to have responsibility for the welfare of the dependent. In the event of the death of one of the domestic partners, the surviving partner shall notify the City Clerk by sending the City Clerk a copy of the death certificate. Any person filing a termination statement must declare under penalty of perjury that (1) the domestic partnership is terminated and (2) that the other domestic partner has been notified either personally or by mailing a copy of the termination statement to the other domestic partner's last and usual address by certified mail.
d. New Statements of Domestic Partnership. No person may file a statement of domestic partnership until any previous domestic partnership of which they were a member has been effectively terminated.
(Ord. 1993 c. 12 § 2)