February 16, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Wojno, Moolenaar, Stewart, Hummel, Gosselin, Marleau, Sheltrown, Moore, LaJoy, Nofs, Lipsey, Emmons, Meyer, Vander Veen, Gleason, Hildenbrand, Stahl, Garfield, Sheen, Shaffer, David Law, Elsenheimer, Kahn, Mortimer, Hansen, Hoogendyk and Kooiman and referred to the Committee on Family and Children Services.
A bill to amend 1887 PA 128, entitled
"An act establishing the minimum ages for contracting marriages; to
require a civil license in order to marry and its registration; to
provide for the implementation of federal law; and to provide a
penalty for the violation of this act,"
by amending section 4 (MCL 551.104).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
4. It shall be the duty of the clergyman The cleric or
magistrate
, officiating at a marriage , to shall
fill in the
spaces of the certificate left blank for the entry of the time and
place of the marriage, the names and residences of 2 witnesses, and
his or her own signature in certification that the marriage has
been
performed by him and any and all information or her. Based
upon information provided by the parties, the cleric or magistrate
shall fill in the appropriate space of the certificate indicating
whether the parties have or have not received premarital education.
For parties who have received premarital education, the parties
shall verify completion of the premarital education by a sworn
statement to that effect in the license or certificate. Information
required to be filled in in the spaces left blank in the
certificate shall be typewritten or legibly printed. He or she
shall
separate the duplicate license and certificate, and deliver
the
half part designated duplicate to 1 of the parties , so joined
in
to the marriage, and within
10 days return the original to the
county
clerk issuing the same who
issued them. It shall be the
duty
of such clergyman The cleric or magistrate to shall keep an
accurate record of all marriages solemnized in a book used
expressly for that purpose.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect October
1, 2005.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5699(request no.
03380'05).
(b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5700(request no.
03381'05).
(c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. (request no.
03382'05).
(d) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. (request no.
03383'05).
(e) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. (request no.
03384'05).
(f) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5702(request no.
03482'05).