Bill Text: MN HF2447 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Office of Administrative Hearings judge authorized to perform marriages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-27 - Secretary of State Chapter 241 04/27/12 [HF2447 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-HF2447-Chaptered.html

CHAPTER 241--H.F.No. 2447
An act
relating to marriage; authorizing a judge from the Office of Administrative
Hearings to perform marriages;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section
517.04.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 517.04, is amended to read:
517.04 PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM MARRIAGES.
Marriages may be solemnized throughout the state by an individual who has attained
the age of 21 years and is a judge of a court of record, a retired judge of a court of record,
a court administrator, a retired court administrator with the approval of the chief judge of
the judicial district, a former court commissioner who is employed by the court system or
is acting pursuant to an order of the chief judge of the commissioner's judicial district, the
residential school administrators of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and the
Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, a licensed or ordained minister of any religious
denomination, or by any mode recognized in section 517.18. For purposes of this section,
a court of record includes the Office of Administrative Hearings under section 14.48.
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