Minnesota Session Laws - 1995, Regular Session

                             CHAPTER 129-H.F.No. 32 
                  An act relating to marriage; authorizing retired court 
                  administrators to solemnize marriages; amending 
                  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 517.04. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 517.04, is 
        amended to read: 
           517.04 [SOLEMNIZATION.] 
           Marriages may be solemnized throughout the state by 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 
        administrators 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, or by any mode 
        recognized in section 517.18. 
           Presented to the governor May 4, 1995 
           Signed by the governor May 5, 1995, 9:08 a.m.