HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1711

AN ACT concerning

Howard County - Battered Spouse Shelters and Domestic
Violence Programs - Funding - Marriage License Fees

FOR the purpose of imposing authorizing an additional fee
for the issuance of marriage licenses in Howard County;
providing that the proceeds of the additional fee, in
addition to designated federal, State, and county
funds, be used to fund battered spouse shelters and
domestic violence programs in Howard County; clarifying
the language; and generally relating to disposition of
the proceeds from the additional fee.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 62 - Marriages

Section 14

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 62 - Marriages

14.

(A) When one or both parties are residents of the
State of Maryland, the clerk of the court shall receive two
dollars for every license issued as aforesaid and for the
performance of the other duties required by this article;
where both parties are nonresidents of the State of
Maryland, the said clerk shall receive three dollars for
every license so issued. (B) In Allegany, Baltimore,
Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Garrett, Harford, Howard,
Montgomery and Washington counties, and in Baltimore City,
said clerks shall be paid an additional two dollars for
every license and shall remit monthly the proceeds of said
additional fee to the county treasurer of their respective
counties at the end of every month for use as general funds
of said county; except that the clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Baltimore City shall remit and shall include the
proceeds of the additional fee in his annual return to the
State Comptroller of all his fees, emoluments and receipts
under the provisions of § 2-205 of the Courts Article of the
Code.

(B) (C) (1) IN HOWARD COUNTY, IN ADDITION TO ALL OTHER
FEES IMPOSED UNDER THIS ARTICLE, THE CLERK OF THE COURT
SHALL: