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Assembly Bill A4501

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the solemnization of marriage

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2021-A4501 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11, Dom Rel L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A7712

2021-A4501 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes former mayors to solemnize a marriage.

2021-A4501 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4501
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation  to  authorizing
   former mayors to solemnize a marriage
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 11 of the domestic relations  law,
 as amended by section 1 of subpart E of part B of chapter 20 of the laws
 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  The  current  or  a  former governor, a mayor OR FORMER MAYOR of a
 village, a county executive of a county, or a  mayor  OR  FORMER  MAYOR,
 recorder,  city  magistrate,  police  justice  or police magistrate of a
 city, a MAYOR OR former mayor or the city clerk of a city of  the  first
 class  of  over one million inhabitants or any of his or her deputies or
 not more than four regular clerks, designated by him  or  her  for  such
 purpose  as provided in section eleven-a of this article, except that in
 cities which contain more than one hundred thousand and  less  than  one
 million inhabitants, a marriage shall be solemnized by the mayor, FORMER
 MAYOR,  or  police justice, and by no other officer of such city, except
 as provided in subdivisions one and three of this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05430-01-1

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