(A) Health care facilities. All public health care facilities in Boston, including, but not limited to, hospitals, convalescent facilities, mental health care facilities or other long-term care facilities, shall afford domestic partners the same visitation rights as afforded to a spouse or parent of a patient, and shall afford dependents of the domestic partnership the same visitation rights as afforded to a patient’s child. For the purpose of visitation rights pursuant to this Section, an individual who is a registered as a domestic partner in the city or as a dependent of a domestic partnership, but who cannot produce documentation of such registration, shall be afforded such recognition, during periods of time when the City Clerk’s Office is not open for business, upon the submission to the health care facility of a statement signed under penalty of perjury that the individual meets the requirements of a domestic partner or dependent as defined in this Section. This statement shall have no other effect beyond providing the individual with visitation rights equivalent to those of a spouse, child or parent of a patient. It shall be the responsibility of the health care facility to inform individuals of this right upon denial of visitation where a spouse, child or parent would have been afforded visitation rights.