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STATE OF NEW YORK
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5648

2011-2012 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

February 24, 2011
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Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF, CALHOUN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  BOYLAND, LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Judici-
  ary

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  domestic relations law, in relation to authori-
  zations to solemnize marriages

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 11 of the domestic relations law,
as  amended  by  chapter  319 of the laws of 1959, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. A clergyman or minister of any religion, or by the  senior  leader,
or  any  of the other leaders, of The Society for Ethical Culture in the
city of New York, having its principal office in the borough of  Manhat-
tan,  or  by  the  leader  of  The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture,
having its principal office in the borough of Brooklyn of  the  city  of
New  York,  or  of the Westchester Ethical Society, having its principal
office in Westchester county, or of the Ethical Culture Society of  Long
Island,  having  its principal office in Nassau county, or of the River-
dale-Yonkers Ethical Society having its principal office in Bronx  coun-
ty,  or  by  the  leader of any other Ethical Culture Society affiliated
with the American Ethical Union, OR BY A UNIVERSAL LIFE MINISTER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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