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REGISTERED DOMESTIC PARTNER (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-62
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Article VII of Chapter 2 of the Code of Ordinances, relating to Employee Benefits, amending Section 2-526(j), Benefits, Annuity Options; amending Section 2-530(a), Miscellaneous, Limitations of assignment; amending Section 2-530(b), Miscellaneous, Payments to legally incompetent; amending Section 2-606(c), Miscellaneous, Payments to legally incompetent; amending Chapter 7 of the Code of Ordinances, relating to Cemeteries, amending Section 7-18(m), Installations, foundations, vaults, memorials, mausoleums; amending Chapter 13 of the Code of Ordinances, relating to the Housing and Commercial Building Codes, amending Section 13-19, Definitions, by creating and adding the definition of registered domestic partner and amending the definition of rooming house; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
On May 20, 2008, The Equal Opportunity Committee recommended making changes to the Code, as described below, to provide benefits to and recognition of Registered Domestic Partners, said changes to occur after the Registered Domestic Partner provision of the Code had been amended to prevent close relatives from becoming Registered Domestic Partners. The Registered Domestic Partner code provision was so amended in September 2008.
At its meeting of October 16, 2008, the City Commission authorized the City Attorney to draft and the Clerk of the Commission to advertise an ordinance amending Chapters 2, 7, and 13 of the City of Gainesville Code of Ordinances to include references to Registered Domestic Partners for certain pension benefits, allowing multiple family names on cemetery memorials, and to add registered domestic partners to listed relationships in...
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