To enter into a state registered domestic partnership the two persons involved must meet the following requirements:

     (1) Both persons share a common residence;

     (2) Both persons are at least eighteen years of age;

     (3) Neither person is married to someone other than the party to the domestic partnership and neither person is in a state registered domestic partnership with another person;

     (4) Both persons are capable of consenting to the domestic partnership;

     (5) Both of the following are true:

     (a) The persons are not nearer of kin to each other than second cousins, whether of the whole or half blood computing by the rules of the civil law; and

     (b) Neither person is a sibling, child, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew to the other person; and

     (6) Either (a) both persons are members of the same sex; or (b) at least one of the persons is sixty-two years of age or older.

[2007 c 156 § 4.]