Chapter 321
2013 -- H 5387
Enacted 07/15/13
A N A C T
RELATING TO
DOMESTIC RELATIONS - SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES
Introduced By: Representatives Blazejewski, and Keable
Date Introduced: February 12, 2013
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,
administrative 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, administrative
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
III of the United States Constitution, bankruptcy
judges appointed pursuant to Article I of the
United States Constitution, and
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
marriage in any city or town in this state, and wardens of the
town of
persons in marriage in New Shoreham.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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