2014 -- S 2609

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES

     Introduced By: Senators Lombardo, Conley, and Archambault

     Date Introduced: March 04, 2014

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 15-3-5 of the General Laws in Chapter 15-3 entitled "Solemnization

of Marriages" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     15-3-5. Officials empowered to join persons in marriage. -- Every ordained clergy or

elder in good standing, every justice of the supreme court, superior court, family court, workers'

compensation court, district court or traffic tribunal, the clerk of the supreme court, every clerk or

general chief clerk of a superior court, family court, district court, or traffic tribunal, magistrates,

special or general magistrates of the superior court, family court, traffic tribunal or district court,

administrative clerks of the district court, administrators of the workers' compensation court,

every former justice or judge and former administrator of these courts and every former chief

clerk of the district court, and every former clerk or general chief clerk of a superior court, the

secretary of the senate, elected clerks of the general assembly, any former secretary of the senate

or any former elected clerk of the general assembly who retires after July 1, 2007, judges of the

United States appointed pursuant to Article III of the United States Constitution, bankruptcy

judges appointed pursuant to Article I of the United States Constitution, and United States

magistrate judges appointed pursuant to federal law, may join persons in marriage in any city or

town in this state; and every justice and every former justice of the municipal courts of the cities

and towns in this state and of the police court of the town of Johnston and the administrator of the

Johnston municipal court, and every probate judge and every former probate judge may join

persons in marriage in any city or town in this state, and wardens of the town of New Shoreham

may join persons in marriage in New Shoreham.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS - SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES

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     This act would allow the administrator of the Johnston municipal court to perform

marriages.

     This act would take effect upon passages.

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