Domestic Partners Coverage in District Health, Dental and Vision Plans. The District shall pay the monthly premium amounts for each employee’s domestic partner and the domestic partner’s dependents who meet the eligibility requirements of the plans in question. Only those regular full-time faculty who retire on or after May 1, 2002 and who would otherwise be eligible for retiree health benefits under section 21.10 shall be eligible for domestic partner benefits under the same qualifying conditions outlined in Section 21.6.5, except as those benefits are modified under Section 21.10. Part-time faculty who receive health benefits under Section 21.9.5 shall be eligible to participate in domestic partner benefits under the same qualifying conditions outlined in Section 21.6.5, expect as those benefits are modified under Section 21.9.5. For the purpose of Contra Costa Community College District health, dental, and vision benefits, "domestic partnership: shall exist between two persons regardless of their gender, and each of them shall be the "domestic partner" of the other if they both complete, and sign and file with the District the "Affidavit of Domestic Partnership" (Appendix K) which includes the following statements: 21.6.5.1 The two parties have resided together for at least six months and have chosen to share their lives in a committed relationship of mutual caring, similar to marriage, for an indefinite amount of time; 21.6.5.2 The two parties are: not married, eighteen (18) years or older, not related by blood closer than would bar marriage in the State of California, and mentally competent to consent to contract; 21.6.5.3 The two parties declare that they are each other's sole domestic partner; they are responsible for their common welfare, and are financially interdependent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
