HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                 5177

Harry Hughes
Governor

Senate Bill No. 933

AN ACT concerning

Prince George's County - Battered Spouse Shelters

and Domestic Violence Programs -

Funding - Marriage License Fees

PG 406-82

FOR the purpose of imposing authorizing an additional fee
for the issuance of marriage licenses in Prince
George's 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
Prince George's County; clarifying 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