Chapter
089
2008 -- S 2317
Enacted 06/26/08
A N A C T
RELATING TO DOMESTIC
RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
Introduced By: Senator Michael J. McCaffrey
Date Introduced: February
07, 2008
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 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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