HF 32

1st Engrossment - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to marriage; authorizing retired court 
  1.3             administrators to solemnize marriages; amending 
  1.4             Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 517.04. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 517.04, is 
  1.7   amended to read: 
  1.8      517.04 [SOLEMNIZATION.] 
  1.9      Marriages may be solemnized throughout the state by a judge 
  1.10  of a court of record, a retired judge of a court of record, a 
  1.11  court administrator, a retired court administrator with the 
  1.12  approval of the chief judge of the judicial district, a former 
  1.13  court commissioner who is employed by the court system or is 
  1.14  acting pursuant to an order of the chief judge of the 
  1.15  commissioner's judicial district, the residential school 
  1.16  administrators of the Minnesota state academy for the deaf and 
  1.17  the Minnesota state academy for the blind, a licensed or 
  1.18  ordained minister of any religious denomination, or by any mode 
  1.19  recognized in section 517.18.