SF 148

1st Engrossment - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 10/25/2023 09:45am

A bill for an act
relating to marriage; authorizing an individual who registers as a civil marriage
officiant to perform civil marriages; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section
517.04.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 517.04, is amended to read:

517.04 PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM CIVIL MARRIAGES.

Civil marriages may be solemnized throughout the state by an individual who has attained
the age of 21 years and is a judge of a court of record, a retired judge of a court of record,
a court administrator, a retired court administrator with the approval of the chief judge of
the judicial district, a former court commissioner who is employed by the court system or
is acting pursuant to an order of the chief judge of the commissioner's judicial district, the
residential school superintendent of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and the
Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, a licensed or ordained minister of any religious
denomination, new text begin an individual who registers as a civil marriage officiant with a local registrar
in a county of this state, new text end or by any mode recognized in section 517.18. For purposes of this
section, a court of record includes the Office of Administrative Hearings under section
14.48.