Assembly Actions -
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May 20, 2010 |
referred to judiciary |
Assembly Bill A11151
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
MAGNARELLI
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A11151 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A11151 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:A11151 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the domestic relations law and the exec- utive law, in relation to allowing military personnel marriages within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license PURPOSE: This bill will permit active military personnel scheduled for deployment in less than 60 days, or while such personnel are deployed or during military mobilization period to get married within twenty-four hours of receiving their marriage license. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends section 13-b of the domestic relations law in relation to the time within which a marriage can be solemnized. This legislation will allow military personnel deploying in less than sixty days or during a mobilization period to waive the twen- ty-four hour waiting period upon receiving a marriage license. The legislation also adds the word "or her" when referencing to town or city clerks. Section 2 amends section 354-d of the executive law to provide the same waiver. Section 3 authorizes that this act shall take effect immediately. JUSTIFICATION: Until recently, there was usually a period of one to two years between military deployments. Troops and families had time to
2009-A11151 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 11151 I N A S S E M B L Y May 20, 2010 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law and the executive law, in relation to allowing military personnel marriages within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 13-b of the domestic relations law, as amended by chapter 652 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: S 13-b. Time within which marriage may be solemnized. [A] 1. EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, A marriage shall not be solemnized within twenty-four hours after the issuance of the marriage license, unless authorized by an order of a court of record as herein- after provided, nor shall it be solemnized after sixty days from the date of the issuance of the marriage license unless authorized pursuant to section three hundred fifty-four-d of the executive law. Every license to marry hereafter issued by a town or city clerk, in addition to other requirements specified by this chapter, must contain a state- ment of the day and the hour the license is issued and the period during which the marriage may be solemnized. It shall be the duty of the cler- gyman or magistrate performing the marriage ceremony, or if the marriage is solemnized by written contract, of the judge before whom the contract is acknowledged, to annex to or endorse upon the marriage license the date and hour the marriage is solemnized. A judge or justice of the supreme court of this state or the county judge of the county in which either party to be married resides, or if such party is under sixteen years of age, the judge of the family court of such county, if it shall appear from an examination of the license and any other proofs submitted by the parties that one of the parties is in danger of imminent death, or by reason of other emergency public interest will be promoted there- by, or that such delay will work irreparable injury or great hardship upon the contracting parties, or one of them, may make an order author- izing the immediate solemnization of the marriage and upon filing such order with the clergyman or magistrate performing the marriage ceremony, EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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