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O.C.G.A. § 19-3-46 — Forfeiture for officiating at marriage without license or banns | Georgia Code

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TITLE 19 DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Section 3. Marriage Generally, 19-3-1 through 19-3-68.

ARTICLE 2 LICENSE AND CEREMONY

19-3-46. Forfeiture for officiating at marriage without license or banns.

The Governor or any former Governor of this state, any judge, city recorder, magistrate, minister, or other person authorized to perform the marriage ceremony who joins in marriage any couple without a license or the publication of banns shall forfeit the sum of $500.00, to be recovered and appropriated as set forth in Code Section 19-3-45.

(Orig. Code 1863, § 1662; Code 1868, § 1705; Code 1873, § 1706; Code 1882, § 1706; Civil Code 1895, § 2420; Civil Code 1910, § 2939; Code 1933, § 53-210; Ga. L. 1983, p. 884, § 4-1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 394, § 4/SB 238.)

Law reviews.

- For comment, "By the Power Vested in Me? Licensing Religious Officials to Solemnize Marriage in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage," see 63 Emory L. J. 979 (2014).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 55 C.J.S., Marriage, § 30.

ALR.

- Recovery of cumulative statutory penalties, 71 A.L.R.2d 986.

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