NY: Ithaca no registered same-sex domestic partnerships
The registry has been available for less than a month and though no couples have registered yet, Billings said that in the two days after an announcement of the registry ran in the town newsletter, the town clerk’s office fielded “at least four calls.”
When the City of Ithaca established its domestic partnership registry almost 18 years ago, it was only the eighth municipality in the nation to do so, said City Clerk Julie Conley Holcomb.“It’s been used as a model across the country,” Holcomb said. “We’ve had lots of municipalities request copies of our legislation and we’ve had a lot of universities doing research based on our statistics.”