Bill Text: NY A07776 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes certain city clerks to designate as many of his or her deputy city clerks or staff members as such city clerks deem necessary to perform marriage ceremonies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-20 - SIGNED CHAP.712 [A07776 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07776-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7776 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to the desig- nation of persons who may perform marriage ceremonies in certain cities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 11-a of the domes- 2 tic relations law, as amended by chapter 321 of the laws of 1971, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 a. The city clerk of a city of the first class of over one million 5 inhabitants may designate in writing any [of his deputies or not more6than four] or all of the deputy city clerks and from among the permanent 7 members of [his] the city clerk's staff as many staff members as the 8 city clerk deems necessary to perform marriage ceremonies, which desig- 9 nation shall be in writing and be filed in the office of such city 10 clerk. The day of such filing shall be endorsed on the designation. 11 Any such designation shall be and remain in effect for six months from 12 the filing thereof. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11914-01-9
