a. A person’s residence is that place in which the person’s habitation is fixed, and to which the person has the intention of returning when absent.

b. A person does not gain or lose the person’s residence by reason of the person’s presence at or absence from a place while employed in the service of the United States or of this State, or while engaged in navigation, or while a student at an institution of learning, or while kept in an almshouse, asylum, or prison.

c. A person does not lose the person’s residence by leaving the person’s home to go to another county, state, or foreign country for merely temporary purposes, with the intention of returning.

d. A person does not gain a residence in the City when the person comes to the City for merely temporary purposes, without the intention of making the City the person’s home.

e. If a person moves to another state with the intention of making that state the person’s residence, the person is no longer a resident of this City.

f. If a person moves to another state with the intention of remaining there for an indefinite time, and of making the place the person’s present residence, the person is no longer a resident of this City, even though the person has an intention of returning at some future period.

g. The place where a person’s family permanently resides is the person’s residence, unless the person is separated from the person’s family. however, if the place is one only of temporary establishment for the person’s family, or for transient purposes, it is not the person’s residence.

h. If a person’s family resides in one place and the person does business in another, the former is the person’s place of residence. however, a person whose family resides in one place, but who has moved to another place with the intention of remaining there, shall be regarded as a resident of the place to where the person has moved.

i. A person does not acquire a new residence merely by intending to move to a place, but not actually moving to that place. Similarly, a person does not acquire a new residence by moving to a place if the person does not intend to make that place the person’s home. (Ord. No. G-5390, § 1, 2009)