Legislation Details

File #: Int 0355-1998    Version: * Name: Domestic Partnerships Recognized Other Jurisdictions
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 7/15/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to recognizing domestic partnerships entered into in other jurisdictions.
Sponsors: Thomas K. Duane, Ronnie M. Eldridge, Kathryn E. Freed, Gifford Miller, Andrew S. Eristoff, Lucy Cruz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Stanley E. Michels, Angel Rodriguez, Kenneth K. Fisher
Council Member Sponsors: 10
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Thomas K. Duane City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998*Thomas K. Duane Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998*Thomas K. Duane City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998*Thomas K. Duane City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 355

 

By Council Members Duane, Eldridge, Freed, Miller and Eristoff; also Council Members Cruz, Leffler, Michels, Rodriguez and Fisher - read and referred to the Committee on General Welfare.

 

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to recognizing domestic partnerships entered into in other jurisdictions.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Subchapter 3 of chapter 2 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     §3-240.  As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

                     a.                     "Domestic partners" shall mean persons who have a registered domestic partnership, which shall include any partnership registered pursuant to this chapter, any partnership registered in accordance with executive order number 123, dated August 7, 1989, [and] any partnership registered in accordance with executive order number 48, dated January 7, 1993, and any partnership registered in accordance with the statutes, laws, rules, regulations, executive orders or similar authority of another jurisdiction.  Nothing in this code shall affect a partnership that has been lawfully registered [pursuant to either such executive order] in New York city or another jurisdiction and has not been terminated in accordance with [such executive orders or this chapter] the provisions of this code or the statutes, laws, rules, regulations, executive orders or similar authority of another jurisdiction.

                     §2.                     This local law shall take effect immediately.