Senate Bill S6272

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee


  • 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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2021-S6272 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7555
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13-b, Dom Rel L; amd §354-d, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S427
2011-2012: S490
2013-2014: S1174
2015-2016: S862
2017-2018: S1013
2019-2020: S64
2023-2024: A3371

2021-S6272 (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.

2021-S6272 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6272 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6272
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and  the  executive  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 35 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   §  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 at least  seven-
 teen  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 immi-
 nent death, or by reason of other  emergency  public  interest  will  be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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