SEC. 16.125. DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP.
§ 16.125
The Board of Supervisors may, by a three-fourths vote, amend or repeal San Francisco's voter-approved Domestic Partnership Ordinance to remove residency requirements, recognize out-of-state domestic partnerships like out-of-state marriages, and grant domestic partners the same legal rights and responsibilities as spouses to the fullest extent allowed by law.
The Board of Supervisors can change or get rid of San Francisco's Domestic Partnership law (if three-fourths of the Board votes for it). They can use this power to remove rules about where someone has to live to register a domestic partnership, treat domestic partnerships from other places the same way as marriages from other places, and give domestic partners all the same rights and duties that married couples have—as much as the law allows.
- Controversial:Domestic partnership recognition and the scope of rights afforded to domestic partners are subjects of genuine public debate and have been politically contentious in San Francisco and elsewhere.
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Official text
The Board of Supervisors may, by a vote of three-fourths of its members, amend or repeal the voter approved Domestic Partnership Ordinance, as codified in Chapter 62 of the San Francisco Administrative Code, as it deems necessary (1) to eliminate any residency requirement for establishing a Domestic Partnership by filing with the County Clerk, (2) to recognize domestic partnerships formed in other jurisdictions to the same extent as marriages formed in other jurisdictions, and (3) to afford domestic partners, to the fullest extent legally possible, the same rights, benefits, responsibilities, obligations and duties as spouses.
(Added March 2004)