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.
1Section 1.
S0148-1 1st EngrossmentSF148 REVISOR BD
SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 148NINETY-THIRD SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: MAYE QUADE, Marty, Oumou Verbeten, Boldon and Mohamed)
OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
Introduction and first reading13901/11/2023
Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety
Comm report: To pass as amended02/13/2023
Second reading