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Senate Bill S10191

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the marriage ceremony fee and the marriage license fee in the city of New York

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2025-S10191 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11049
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Domestic Relations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-a & 15, Dom Rel L

2025-S10191 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the marriage ceremony fee to fifty-five dollars and the marriage license fee to sixty dollars in the city of New York.

2025-S10191 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10191
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 5, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LIU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in  relation  to  increasing
   the  marriage ceremony fee and the marriage license fee in the city of
   New York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 11-a of the domes-
 tic relations law, as amended by chapter 424 of the  laws  of  1990,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   d.  In  all cases in which the city clerk of such city or one of [his]
 THEIR deputies or the permanent members of [his] THEIR staff  so  desig-
 nated  shall  perform a marriage ceremony such official shall demand and
 be entitled to collect therefor a fee to be fixed by the council of  the
 city  of  New York not exceeding [twenty-five] FIFTY-FIVE dollars, which
 sum shall be paid by the contracting parties before or immediately  upon
 the  solemnization  of the marriage; and all such fees so received shall
 be paid over to the commissioner of finance of the city.
   § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 15 of the  domestic  relations  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  35  of  the  laws  of  2017, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the city clerk
 of the city of New York, before issuing  any  licenses  herein  provided
 for,  shall  be  entitled to a fee of [twenty-five] SIXTY dollars, which
 sum shall be paid by the applicants before or at the time the license is
 issued and all such fees so received shall be paid monthly into the city
 treasury.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15591-01-6

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