Assembly Bill A6432

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain military personnel to get married within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A6432 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S490
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13-b, Dom Rel L; amd §354-c, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S427
2013-2014: S1174
2015-2016: S862
2017-2018: S1013
2019-2020: S64
2021-2022: S6272

2011-A6432 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain military personnel who are scheduled to be deployed within thirty days to get married within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license.

2011-A6432 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6432

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 16, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Judiciary

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  domestic relations law, in relation to allowing
  marriages within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section 13-b of the domestic relations law, as amended by
chapter 652 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  S 13-b. Time within which marriage may be solemnized. [A] 1. EXCEPT AS
PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, A  marriage  shall  not  be
solemnized  within  twenty-four hours after the issuance of the marriage
license, unless authorized by an order of a court of record  as  herein-
after  provided,  nor  shall  it be solemnized after sixty days from the
date of the issuance of the marriage license unless authorized  pursuant
to  section  three  hundred  fifty-four-d  of the executive law.   Every
license to marry hereafter issued by a town or city clerk,  in  addition
to  other  requirements specified by this chapter, must contain a state-
ment of the day and the hour the license is issued and the period during
which the marriage may be solemnized. It shall be the duty of the  cler-
gyman or magistrate performing the marriage ceremony, or if the marriage
is solemnized by written contract, of the judge before whom the contract
is  acknowledged,  to  annex to or endorse upon the marriage license the
date and hour the marriage is solemnized. A  judge  or  justice  of  the
supreme  court  of this state or the county judge of the county in which
either party to be married resides, or if such party  is  under  sixteen
years  of age, the judge of the family court of such county, if it shall
appear from an examination of the license and any other proofs submitted
by the parties that one of the parties is in danger of  imminent  death,
or  by reason of other emergency public interest will be promoted there-
by, or that such delay will work irreparable injury  or  great  hardship
upon  the contracting parties, or one of them, may make an order author-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01924-01-1
              

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