Nevada Revised Statutes

Nev. Rev. Stat. § 122.260 (2026)

Solemnization of marriage by unauthorized person or where legal impediment known; civil penalty; delegation of authority to hearing officer to determine violations and levy penalties

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NRS 122.260 Solemnization of marriage by unauthorized person or where legal impediment known; civil penalty; delegation of authority to hearing officer to determine violations and levy penalties. If any person undertakes to join others in marriage and is not lawfully authorized so to do, or knows of the existence of any legal impediment to the proposed marriage, the person shall be punished by a civil penalty of not more than $1,500. A board of county commissioners may enact an ordinance delegating to a hearing officer the authority to determine violations of this section and to levy civil penalties for those violations.

[12:33:1861; B § 205; BH § 481; C § 492; RL § 2348; NCL § 4060]—(NRS A 1967, 530; 2017, 1035; 2019, 457)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1967–2012 · leading case: Galloway v. Truesdell, 422 P.2d 237 (Nev. 1967).

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Galloway v. Truesdell, 422 P.2d 237 (Nev. 1967). “1 NRS 122.260. “Solemnization of marriage by unauthorized person; solemnization where legal impediment known: Penalty.”

Martinez v. Clark Cnty., 846 F. Supp. 2d 1131 (D. Nev. 2012). · cites it 2× “Nev.Rev.Stat. § 122.260 (“If any person shall undertake to join others in marriage, knowing that he or she is not lawfully authorized so to do, or knowing of the existence of any legal impediment to the proposed marriage, he or she is guilty of a misdemeanor.”

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