MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

161

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 62 — Marriages

Section 3A(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 3A(c) of Article 62 - Marriages,
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1972 Replacement
Volume and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed:

Article 62 — Marriages
3A.

[(c) Except in Allegany and Montgomery counties
clerks, deputies or other clerks shall receive for
performing a marriage ceremony a fee of ten dollars

($10.00), of which three dollars ($3.00) shall be
retained by the clerks and deposited and disbursed in the
same manner as other fees collected by the clerks, and
the remaining seven dollars ($7.00) of the fee shall be
paid by the clerks monthly into the general funds of the
county or City of Baltimore, except that in Garrett
County, the clerk shall pay five dollars ($5.00) of the
remaining seven dollars (7.00) monthly into the general
funds of the county and forward the remaining two dollars

($2.00) to the Garrett County Historical Society for its
general use; and in Cecil County the clerk shall retain
five dollars ($5.00) and deposit and disburse it in the
same manner as other fees collected by him and shall pay
five dollars ($5.00) into the general fund of the county.
In Allegany County, the clerks, deputies or other clerks
shall receive a fee of twelve dollars ($12.00), which
shall be allocated and disbursed as follows: Three
dollars ($3.00) shall be retained by the clerks, seven
dollars ($7.00) shall be paid over to the general funds
of Allegany County; and two dollars ($2.00) shall be paid
over by the clerks quarterly on July 1, October 1,
January 1, and April 1, of each year to the Allegany
County Historical Society for its general use. In
Montgomery County, the clerks, deputies or other clerks
shall receive a fee of twelve dollars ($12.00), which
shall be allocated and disbursed as follows: Three
dollars ($3.00) shall be retained by the clerks, seven
dollars (7.00) shall be paid over to the general funds of
Montgomery County; and two dollars ($2.00) shall be paid
over by the clerks quarterly on July 1, October 1,
January 1, and April 1, of each year to the Montgomery
County Historical Society, Inc., for its general use. No
clerk, deputy or other clerk shall receive any ether fee,
remuneration, or gift of any kind for performing a
marriage ceremony net authorized herein.]