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Home » US Law » 2022 Maryland Statutes » Family Law » Title 2 - Marriage » Subtitle 5 - Records

Section 2-501 – Marriage License Book

    Each clerk shall keep in the clerk’s office a marriage license book or electronic record, which shall contain:         (1)    a complete record of each license issued;         (2)    a complete record of all matters the clerk is required to ascertain that relate to the rights of an individual to obtain a license;         (3)    in regular order, the items testified […]

Section 2-502 – Foreign Marriage Record Book; Certificate of Records

    (a)    In this section, “foreign marriage” means a marriage ceremony:         (1)    performed outside this State; and         (2)    in which 1 or both of the parties were or are citizens of this State.     (b)    Each clerk shall keep a foreign marriage record book in the clerk’s office. The clerk shall record a foreign marriage when presented with either:         (1)    a certificate […]

Section 2-503 – Reports to Secretary of Health; Duplication of Records

    (a)    At the intervals that the Secretary of Health sets, each clerk shall send to the Secretary:         (1)    a copy of the record of each marriage that the clerk licenses and records;         (2)    a report of each divorce that the court grants;         (3)    a report of each annulment of a marriage that the court:             (i)    grants; or             (ii)    effects by entering […]