1.20.010 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
A. "Domestic partnership." The requirements to be domestic partners are:
1. The individuals must live together;
2. The individuals must agree to be jointly responsible for each other’s basic living expenses during the domestic partnership;
3. Neither person may be married or a member of another domestic relationship;
4. They must not be related in a way which would prevent them from being married to each other;
5. Both must be over eighteen years of age;
6. They must sign a declaration of domestic partnership and establish the partnership under Section 1.20.020;
7. The persons are each other’s sole domestic partner and intend to remain so indefinitely;
8. The persons have an intimate, committed relationship of mutual caring;
B. "Live together" means that two people share the same living quarters. It is not necessary that the legal right to possess the quarters be in both of their names. Two people may live together even if one or both have additional living quarters. Domestic partners do not cease to live together if one leaves the shared quarters temporarily.
C. "Joint responsibility for basic living expenses" means that each partner agrees to provide for the other partner’s basic living expenses if the partner is unable to provide for himself or herself.
D. "Declaration of domestic partnership" means a form which shall be provided by the city clerk. By signing it, two people declare, under penalty of perjury, that they have agreed to be jointly responsible for basic living expenses during the domestic partnership. They also declare that they met the other parts of the definition of domestic partnership when they signed the statement. The form will require each partner to provide a mailing address.
(Ord. 2089 NCS §2 (part), 1999.)