§ 22-75. Alternative methods of designating support persons.

(a)

Any adult person in Orange County may choose to use the registration provisions of the City of Orlando Domestic Partnership Registry Ordinance. Any adult person in Orange County who is registered under the domestic partnership registry will be a registered domestic partner in a registered domestic partnership as of the effective date hereof. As to each of any pair of persons who submit or have submitted an affidavit together and who register or have registered under the domestic partnership registry, each person is a registered domestic partner, and if necessary, a support person, under this article, in relation to the other affiant, who will also be deemed the designating person under this article.

(b)

Alternatively, any adult person in Orange County who chooses not to register under the City of Orlando Domestic Partnership Registry may nevertheless designate a support person by signing a written document, provided by the comptroller, designating the support person, and the designating person shall indicate the express functions and rights which the support person will have with respect to the designating person, identifying healthcare surrogate status, healthcare facility visitation rights, authority to make funeral/burial decisions, correctional facility visitation rights, right to notification in the event of an emergency, preneed guardian designation, and/or the right to have access to educational records and be involved in the myriad of proceedings and decisions related to the education of a minor child who is the designating person's dependent. The written designation shall be signed by the designating person in the presence of two (2) subscribing adult witnesses, at least one (1) of whom shall be neither the designating person's spouse nor blood relative. If the designating person is unable to sign the instrument, the designating person, in the presence of two (2) adult witnesses, one (1) of which shall be neither of the designating person's spouse nor blood relative, may direct that another person sign the designating person's name. The designating person shall provide an exact copy of the instrument to the support person.

(Ord. No. 2012-09 , § 5, 5-22-12)