HOUSE BILL No. 5703

 

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).