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Session Laws, 1976
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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  205

The rector shall make, or cause to be made, all
entries of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials
in the parish register pursuant to the provisions of §
304 (b) of this subheading.

(d)   Report of celebration by nonparish minister.

If any minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church
shall celebrate any baptism, marriage or burial in any
parish in which he is not the rector or perform any other
official act therein, he shall communicate all
information required by § 304 (b) of this subheading to
the rector or, if there be no rector, to the registrar of
such parish so that due record thereof may be made.

(e)   Custodian of parish register; certificate of
entry.

The rector shall be responsible for the safekeeping
of the parish register.

He shall exhibit the register at all reasonable
times to any interested person, and, upon the payment of
the sum of $1.00, or such amount as the parish bylaws may
require, he shall give a certificate as to the contents
of any particular entry in the register.

Such certificate under his hand and the designation
of his official office, with or without the seal of the
vestry, shall be received as evidence in all State and
federal courts within this State.

(f)   Other duties and obligations.

The rector shall perform such other lawful acts from
time to time as may be required of him in his official
capacity as rector of the parish, as well as such other
duties and obligations as may be required by any general
or diocesan canonical mandate.

306. Powers and duties of churchwardens.

(a)   Preservation of order and decency.

Churchwardens shall have power and authority to
preserve order and decency in the church.

(b)   Exclusion of disorderly persons; assistance.

If reasonably necessary in his judgment so to do, a
churchwarden may exclude any person from any church,
churchyard, or other enclosure, for any breach of the
peace or disorderly conduct, or for making any
unnecessary and unseemly noise so as to disturb the
congregation.

And it shall be lawful for any person (who may be

 

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