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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 325 By: Burns
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to marriage; amending 43 O.S. 2011,
66	66	Section 7, which relates to solemni zation of
67	67	marriages; prohibiting requirement for filing of
68	68	certain credentials or authority; requiring
69	69	destruction of certain records; prohib iting retention
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77	77	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
78	78	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 43 O.S. 2011, Section 7, is
79	79	amended to read as follows:
80	80	Section 7. A. All marriages must be contracted by a formal
81	81	ceremony performed or solemnized in the presence of at least two
82	82	adult, competent persons as witnesses, by a ju dge or retired judge
83	83	of any court in this state, or an orda ined or authorized preacher or
84	84	minister of the Gospel, priest or other ec clesiastical dignitary of
85	85	any denomination who has been duly ordained or authorized by the
86	86	church to which he or she belongs to preach the Gospel, or a rabbi
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139	139	B. 1. The judge shall place his or her order of appointment on
140	140	file with the office of the court clerk of the county in w hich he or
141	141	she resides.
142	142	2. The No preacher, minister, priest, rabbi, or ecclesiastical
143	143	dignitary who is a resident of this state shall have filed, in the
144	144	office of the court clerk of the county in which he or she resides,
145	145	a copy of the be required to file any credentials or authority from
146	146	his or her church or synagogue authorizing him or her to solemnize
147	147	marriages. Any such credentials or authority filed in the office of
148	148	the court clerk in any county in this state prior to the effective
149	149	date of this act shall be destroyed by the office of the court clerk
150	150	and no copies of such cred entials or authority shall be retained in
151	151	any format by any governmental entity.
152	152	3. The preacher, minist er, priest, rabbi, or ecclesiastical
153	153	dignitary who is not a resident of th is state, but has complied with
154	154	the laws of the state of which he or she is a resident, shall have
155	155	filed once, in the office of the court clerk of the county in which
156	156	he or she intends to perform or solemnize a marriage, a copy of the
157	157	credentials or author ity from his or her church or synagogue
158	158	authorizing him or her to solemnize marriages.
159	159	4. The filing by resident or nonresident preachers, ministers,
160	160	priests, rabbis, ecclesiastical dignitaries or judges shall be
161	161	effective in and for all counties of this state; provided, no fee
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214	214	C. No person herein authorized to perform or solemnize a
215	215	marriage ceremony shall do so unless the license issued therefo r be
216	216	first delivered into his or her possession nor unless he or she has
217	217	good reason to believe the persons presenting themse lves before him
218	218	or her for marriage are the identical persons named in the license,
219	219	and for whose marriage the same was issued, and that there is no
220	220	legal objection or impediment to such marriage.
221	221	D. Marriages between persons belonging to the society call ed
222	222	Friends, or Quakers, the spiritual assembly of the Baha ’is, or the
223	223	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which have no or dained
224	224	minister, may be solemnized by the persons and in the manner
225	225	prescribed by and practiced in any such society, church , or
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227	227	SECTION 2. This act shall become effective No vember 1, 2021.
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