Chapter 087
2021 -- S 0679
Enacted 06/25/2021

A N   A C T
RELATING TO DOMESTIC RELATIONS -- SOLEMNIZATION OF MARRIAGES

Introduced By: Senators Archambault, and Burke

Date Introduced: March 18, 2021

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, or administrator of a
the supreme court, 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; every former chief clerk of the
district court; 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; 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, while he or she is serving as an administrator, 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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