Minnesota Senate Bill SF148 Engrossed / Bill

                    1.1	A bill for an act​
1.2 relating to marriage; authorizing an individual who registers as a civil marriage​
1.3 officiant to perform civil marriages; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section​
1.4 517.04.​
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:​
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 517.04, is amended to read:​
1.7 517.04 PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM CIVIL MARRIAGES.​
1.8 Civil marriages may be solemnized throughout the state by an individual who has attained​
1.9the age of 21 years and is a judge of a court of record, a retired judge of a court of record,​
1.10a court administrator, a retired court administrator with the approval of the chief judge of​
1.11the judicial district, a former court commissioner who is employed by the court system or​
1.12is acting pursuant to an order of the chief judge of the commissioner's judicial district, the​
1.13residential school superintendent of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and the​
1.14Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, a licensed or ordained minister of any religious​
1.15denomination, an individual who registers as a civil marriage officiant with a local registrar​
1.16in a county of this state, or by any mode recognized in section 517.18. For purposes of this​
1.17section, a court of record includes the Office of Administrative Hearings under section​
1.1814.48.​
1​Section 1.​
S0148-1 1st Engrossment​SF148 REVISOR BD​
SENATE​
STATE OF MINNESOTA​
S.F. No. 148​NINETY-THIRD SESSION​
(SENATE AUTHORS: MAYE QUADE, Marty, Oumou Verbeten, Boldon and Mohamed)​
OFFICIAL STATUS​D-PG​DATE​
Introduction and first reading​139​01/11/2023​
Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety​
Comm report: To pass as amended​02/13/2023​
Second reading​