Act No. 507

Public Acts of 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 29, 2004

NO EFFECTIVE DATE: Tie-barred to HB 5467, which was vetoed by the Governor

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Reps. Wojno, Hummel, Bieda, Wenke, Gleason, Kooiman, Vander Veen, Sak, Richardville, Cheeks, Mortimer, Hoogendyk, Sheen and Taub

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5473

AN ACT 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. The cleric or magistrate officiating at a marriage 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 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, deliver the half part designated duplicate to 1 of the parties to the marriage, and within 10 days return the original to the county clerk who issued them. The cleric or magistrate 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 92nd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5467.

(b) House Bill No. 5468.

(c) House Bill No. 5469.

(d) House Bill No. 5470.

(e) House Bill No. 5471.

(f) House Bill No. 5474.

(g) Senate Bill No. 959.

(h) Senate Bill No. 961.

(i) Senate Bill No. 963.

(j) Senate Bill No. 964.

(k) Senate Bill No. 966.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor