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SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved April 8, 1986.

CHAPTER 80

(House Bill 1043)

AN ACT concerning

Cecil County - Marriage Ceremony Fee

FOR the purpose of increasing the clerk's or deputy clerk's fee
for performing a marriage ceremony in Cecil County;
requiring the payment by the clerk of a certain part of the
marriage ceremony fee to the Historical Society of Cecil
County; making certain technical corrections; requiring the
Historical Society of Cecil County to make a certain annual
report to the Cecil County Commissioners; and generally
relating to marriage ceremony fees in Cecil County.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 2-410(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

2-410.

(a) (1) Except as provided in this subsection, a clerk or
deputy clerk may not receive any fee, remuneration, or gift for
performing a marriage ceremony.

(2) (i) [The] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (6) OF
THIS SUBSECTION, THE clerk's or deputy clerk's fee for performing
a marriage ceremony is $25.

(ii) Each month the clerk shall pay $10 of each
fee collected under this section into the general fund of the
county.

(iii) Except as otherwise provided in this
subsection, the clerk shall retain the [remaining $15] REMAINDER