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New York City Administrative Code Section 3-243 - Confidentiality Of Domestic Partnership Information.Legal Research Home > New York Lawyer > NYC Administrative Code > New York City Administrative Code Section 3-243 - Confidentiality Of Domestic Partnership Information.
§ 3-243. Confidentiality of domestic partnership information. The city
clerk shall establish procedures to ensure the confidentiality of
information in the registry of domestic partnerships.
a. In the ordinary course of business, such records shall be released
only:
1. To the parties to the domestic partnership;
2. To individuals presenting written authorization from one of the
parties to the domestic partnership;
3. To attorneys in cases where such records are required as evidence
in a legal proceeding.
b. The following restrictions shall not apply to records that are at
least fifty years old, or to records where both parties to the domestic
partnership are deceased:
1. Where a party to the domestic partnership sends a third party to
obtain their domestic partnership record without a letter of
authorization, the third party may make the request and pay any
applicable fee if the third party consents to having the record mailed
directly to the party to the domestic partnership. The record shall not
be released directly to the unauthorized third party.
2. If a person requires information concerning the prior history of
domestic partnerships of a person who is that person's domestic partner
or spouse or prospective domestic partner or spouse, the office of the
City Clerk shall, upon receiving adequate assurance that such person's
interest is as described in this paragraph, payment of the appropriate
fee, and the furnishing of an approximate date of the registration of
the partnership and sufficient information to search under at least one
party's name, confirm only the fact of a prior domestic partnership by a
"yes" or "no" answer.
c. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the publication of
statistics pertaining to domestic partnerships which have been
registered by the city clerk, provided that appropriate measures are
taken to prevent identification of persons registered.
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