HB-5473, As Passed Senate, September 29, 2004                               

SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 5473

                                                                             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:

1       Sec. 4.   It shall be the duty of the clergyman The cleric

2   or magistrate  ,  officiating at a marriage  , to shall fill in            

3   the spaces of the certificate left blank for the entry of the               

4   time and place of the marriage, the names and residences of 2               

5   witnesses, and his or her own signature in certification that the           

6   marriage has been performed by him  and any and all information

7   or her.  Based upon information provided by the parties, the                

8   cleric or magistrate shall fill in the appropriate space of the             

9   certificate indicating whether the parties have or have not                 

10  received premarital education.  For parties who have received               

1   premarital education, the parties shall verify completion of the            

2   premarital education by a sworn statement to that effect in the             

3   license or certificate.  Information required to be filled in in            

4   the spaces left blank in the certificate shall be typewritten or            

5   legibly printed.  He or she shall separate the duplicate license            

6   and certificate,  and  deliver the half part designated duplicate           

7   to 1 of the parties  , so joined in to the marriage, and within            

8   10 days return the original to the county clerk  issuing the                

9   same who issued them.   It shall be the duty of such clergyman

10  The cleric or magistrate  to shall keep an accurate record of              

11  all marriages solemnized in a book used expressly for that                  

12  purpose.                                                                    

13      Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act takes effect                       

14  October 1, 2004.                                                            

15      Enacting section 2.  This amendatory act does not take                      

16  effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature            

17  are enacted into law:                                                       

18      (a) Senate Bill No. 963.                                                    

19      (b) Senate Bill No. 964.