HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1881

(I)  HAND 1 MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE TO THE
INDIVIDUALS; AND

(II)  RETURN, WITHIN 5 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE
MARRIAGE CEREMONY, THE OTHER MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE TO THE CLERK
WHO ISSUED THE LICENSE TO WHICH THE CERTIFICATES WERE ATTACHED,
BUT IF THE AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL WHO PERFORMS THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY
DIES OR RESIGNS, SOME OTHER INDIVIDUAL SHALL RETURN THE
CERTIFICATE.

(2) IF THE INDIVIDUALS ARE MARRIED IN A SOCIETY OF
FRIENDS MARRIAGE CEREMONY, THEY:

(I)  MAY KEEP 1 MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE; AND

(II)  WITHIN 5 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE
MARRIAGE CEREMONY, SHALL RETURN THE OTHER MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE TO
THE CLERK WHO ISSUED THE LICENSE TO WHICH THE CERTIFICATES WERE
ATTACHED.

(C)  FAILURE TO RETURN CERTIFICATE.

IF THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE IS NOT RETURNED WITHIN 30 DAYS
FROM THE DATE THE LICENSE IS ISSUED, THE CLERK WHO ISSUED THE
LICENSE SHALL ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY
WAS PERFORMED AND, IF SO, THE NAME OF THE AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL WHO
PERFORMED THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.

(D)  PROHIBITION; PENALTY.

(1)  AN INDIVIDUAL WHO PERFORMS A MARRIAGE CEREMONY OR
WHO IS MARRIED IN A SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MARRIAGE CEREMONY MAY NOT
VIOLATE THE PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTION (B)(1)(II) OR (2) (II) OF
THIS SECTION.

(2)  AN INDIVIDUAL WHO VIOLATES ANY PROVISION OF THIS
SUBSECTION IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND ON CONVICTION IS
SUBJECT TO A FINE IN AN AMOUNT THAT THE COURT CONSIDERS
APPROPRIATE.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived
without substantive change from the second half of the
second paragraph and the last clause of the third
paragraph of former Article 62, § 4, the third
sentence, the first clause of the first sentence, and
the first and last 2 clauses of the second sentence of
§ 5, and the last clause of the first paragraph and
the entire second paragraph of § 15.

In subsections (a)(2) and (b)(2) of this section, the
term "Friends" is substituted for the former phrase
"people called Quakers" to reflect the formal name of
that religious group.