Section 15-3-16. – Solemnization of marriage without authority.
§ 15-3-16. Solemnization of marriage without authority. Every person who solemnizes a marriage without being legally authorized to do so shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500). History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 191, § 23; P.L. 1898, ch. 549, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 243, § 23; G.L. 1923, ch. 287, § 23; G.L. 1938, […]
Section 15-3-17. – Court orders regarding invalid marriages.
§ 15-3-17. Court orders regarding invalid marriages. If, as the result of a court decision pursuant to chapter 6 of title 11, chapters 1 — 3 of this title, or chapter 3 of title 23, any marriage which has occurred in Rhode Island is declared invalid, the court shall order the state registrar of vital […]
Section 15-3-6. – Marriages after the manner of Friends, according to Jewish rites, or spiritual assembly of Baha’is.
§ 15-3-6. Marriages after the manner of Friends, according to Jewish rites, or spiritual assembly of Baha’is. Any marriage which may be had and solemnized among the people called Quakers, or Friends, in the manner and form used or practiced in their societies, or among persons professing the Jewish religion, according to their rites and […]
Section 15-3-1 – — 15-3-4. Repealed.
§ 15-3-1 — 15-3-4. Repealed. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 191, §§ 6, 6*, 7; G.L. 1909, ch. 243, §§ 6, 6*, 7; P.L. 1909, ch. 430, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 287, §§ 6, 7; P.L. 1927, ch. 1005, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 415, §§ 6, 7; G.L. 1956, §§ 15-3-1 — 15-3-4; […]
Section 15-3-5. – Officials empowered to join persons in marriage.
§ 15-3-5. Officials empowered to join persons in marriage. Every ordained clergy or elder in good standing; every justice of the supreme court, superior court, family court, workers’ compensation court, district court or traffic tribunal; the clerk of the supreme court; every clerk, administrative clerk, general chief clerk, or administrator of the supreme court, superior […]