West Hollywood市议会全票通过条例：三人及以上伴侣关系可向市政府登记
位于加州洛杉矶县的 West Hollywood 市市议会11月2日以5比0全票通过一项条例，允许三人或三人以上的伴侣关系向市政府登记为「多人家庭伴侣关系」（multi-partner domestic relationship），登记后可获得医疗探视、探监与租住等方面的具体保护。条例将在通过30天后生效。
按条例规定，登记由市书记官办公室办理，参与登记的每个人须向市政府提交一份关系声明。登记条件包括：所有参与者均年满18岁、具备订立合同的行为能力，彼此之间不存在加州法律禁止结婚的血亲关系，共同分担生活必需开支，自愿同意登记并相互承担照顾对方的责任；关系状况发生变化时须通知市政府，且不得同时登记另一段多人伴侣关系。声明一般须由全体参与者持有效身份证件亲自提交，也可经公证后邮寄办理。登记不以居住在 West Hollywood 为条件，非本市居民也可申请。
完成登记后，伴侣在市内的医疗机构享有探视权（机构完全不开放探视时除外），在市营拘留设施享有探视权；租住保护同步扩大到这类关系，房东不得仅因登记伴侣继续在租住的房屋内居住而终止租约或拒绝续租。条例同时明确，这项市级登记不构成婚姻，也不等同于加州州级登记的家庭伴侣关系，登记伴侣不享有婚姻或州级家庭伴侣的全部法律权利与福利。
这项条例由市长 John Heilman 提出。2025年初，律师 Christina Fialho 最先向市议员 Chelsea Lee Byers 提出为多人伴侣关系提供保护的构想；Byers 称这类保护「早就应该有了」。今年3月，市议会先通过了禁止基于家庭或关系结构歧视的条例，并设立工作组研究登记办法，随后全票推进登记方案。West Hollywood 早在1985年就设立了同性家庭伴侣登记，是全美最早的一批；马萨诸塞州的 Somerville 与 Cambridge 此前也已承认三人以上的家庭伴侣关系。
（来源：West Hollywood市议会）
West Hollywood Council Votes 5-0 to Let Three or More Partners Register Their Relationship With the City
The City Council of West Hollywood, a city in Los Angeles County, California, voted 5-0 on November 2 to adopt an ordinance allowing relationships of three or more partners to register with the city as a "multi-partner domestic relationship," with specific protections covering hospital visitation, jail visitation and rental housing. The ordinance takes effect 30 days after adoption.
Under the ordinance, registration is handled by the City Clerk. Each participant must file a statement of the relationship with the city. To qualify, all participants must be 18 or older and competent to enter into a contract, must not be related by blood in a way that would bar marriage in California, must share the common necessities of life, must consent to the registration and accept responsibility for one another's welfare, must agree to notify the city if the status of the relationship changes, and must not be registered in another multi-partner domestic relationship at the same time. Statements are generally filed in person with valid identification from every member, or by mail if all signatures are notarized. Registration is not limited to West Hollywood residents.
Once registered, partners are entitled to visitation at health care facilities in the city, unless the facility allows no visitors at all, and at city-operated jails. Rental protections were also extended to these relationships: a landlord may not terminate a tenancy or refuse to renew a lease solely because a registered partner continues to live in the property. The ordinance also makes clear that the city registration does not create a marriage and is not equivalent to a state-registered domestic partnership, and that registered partners do not receive the full legal rights and benefits of married couples or state-registered domestic partners.
The ordinance was introduced by Mayor John Heilman. Attorney Christina Fialho, founder of the advocacy group Rewrite the BiLine, first proposed protections for polyamorous relationships to Councilmember Chelsea Lee Byers in early 2025; Byers called the protections "long overdue." In March of this year the council adopted an ordinance barring discrimination based on family or relationship structure, set up a working group to design the registry, and voted unanimously to advance the registration plan. West Hollywood created one of the nation's first same-sex domestic partnership registries in 1985, and the Massachusetts cities of Somerville and Cambridge have previously recognized domestic partnerships of three or more people.
(Source: West Hollywood City Council)
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