(a) A domestic partnership terminates when:
(1) One of the partners dies.
(2) A Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership has been filed with the City.
(b) Within ninety days of the dissolution of the domestic partnership, at least one former partner shall file, by certified mail, a Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership with an office designated by the City. Upon receipt, the City shall provide the domestic partner who filed the Notice of Termination with two copies of the Notice marked “filed.” Unless the partners jointly file the Notice, the partner filing the Notice, shall within five days, send, by certified mail, a copy of the filed Notice to the other partner’s last known address.
This requirement does not apply if the termination is due to a death of one of the domestic partners.
(c) The termination shall be effective upon filing of the Notice of Termination with the City by one or both partners or on the date of the death of one of the domestic partners.
(d) A former domestic partner who has given a copy of the Declaration of Domestic Partnership to any third party to qualify for any benefit or right and whose receipt of that benefit or enjoyment of that right has not otherwise terminated, shall, upon termination of the domestic partnership, give or send to the third party, at the last known address of the third party, written notification that the domestic partnership has been terminated.
(e) Failure to provide third-party notice required in subsection (d) shall not delay or prevent the termination of the domestic partnership.
(Init. Ord. approved by voters 11-4-03; Ord. 153-2021. Passed 12-6-21.)