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File #: 2013-1772    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed Finally
File created: 7/30/2013 In control: Committee on Human Resources
On agenda: Final action: 9/10/2013
Enactment date: 9/10/2013 Enactment #: 23
Effective date: 9/19/2013    
Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One, Administrative, Article XI: Personnel, Chapter 186: Domestic Partnership and Common Law Spouse Benefits, by adding language in Section 186.04: Requirements for Mutual Commitment Registry.
Sponsors: Bruce A. Kraus
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 01 - ADMINISTRATIVE
Attachments: 1. 2013-1772.doc
Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One, Administrative, Article XI: Personnel, Chapter 186: Domestic Partnership and Common Law Spouse Benefits, by adding language in Section 186.04: Requirements for Mutual Commitment Registry.
Body
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
 
Section 1.      The Pittsburgh Code, Title One: Administrative, Article XI: Personnel, Chapter 186: Domestic Partnership and Common Law Spouse Benefits, by adding language in Section 186.04 (4): Requirements for Mutual Commitment Registry, is hereby amended as follows:
 
186.04 - REQUIREMENTS FOR MUTUAL COMMITMENT REGISTRY.
To be eligible to register a relationship of mutual commitment with the City of Pittsburgh, the two (2) individuals (the "declarants") must meet the following criteria:
1.   Freely declare that they are solely and mutually committed to each other;
2.   Be persons eighteen (18) years of age or older and be unmarried according to the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania;
3.   Be competent to contract;
4.  Be residents of the City of Pittsburgh; or non-residents of the city of Pittsburgh subject to City wage tax under Section 246 (pertaining to tax on salaries, wages, commissions and other compensation of non-residents).