(a) Domestic partners are two adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring. A domestic partnership shall be established when both partners file a Declaration of Domestic Partnership with the Board of Fire and Police Pension Commissioners, provided all the following requirements are met:
(1) Both persons have a common residence as defined in Family Code Section 297.
(2) Both persons agree to be jointly responsible for each other's basic living expenses incurred during the domestic partnership.
(3) Neither person is married or a member of another domestic partnership.
(4) The two persons are not related by blood in a way that would prevent them from being married to each other in this state.
(5) Both persons are at least 18 years of age.
(6) Both persons may be of the same sex or the opposite sex.
(7) Both persons are capable of consenting to the domestic partnership.
(b) A domestic partnership is terminated when any one of the following occurs:
(1) One partner gives, or sends by certified mail, to the other partner a written notice that he or she is terminating the partnership.
(2) One of the domestic partners dies.
(3) One of the domestic partners marries.
(4) The domestic partners no longer have a common residence.
(c) Upon termination of a domestic partnership, at least one of the former partners shall file a Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership with the Board of Fire and Police Pension Commissioners, provided that failure to file such notice shall not prevent the termination of the domestic partnership.
(d) No person who has filed a Declaration of Domestic Partnership with the Board of Fire and Police Pension Commissioners may file a new Declaration of Domestic Partnership until at least six months after the date that a Notice of Termination of Domestic Partnership was filed with the Board as provided herein. This prohibition does not apply if the previous domestic partnership ended because one of the partners died or married.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 173,028, Eff. 1-17-00.
Amended by: Sec. Number, Ord. No. 173,136, Eff. 3-24-00; Subsec. (a)(1), Ord. No. 176,731, Eff. 6-21-05.
Renumbered from former Sec. 4.1159 by Ord. No. 179,538, Eff. 3-2-08.