Effective: April 8, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 132nd General Assembly (A) Except as provided in section 3101.02 of the Revised Code, only male persons of the age of eighteen years, and only female persons of the age of eighteen years, not nearer of kin than second cousins, and not having a husband […]
Effective: April 8, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 132nd General Assembly (A) If both persons to be joined in marriage are the age of seventeen years, they may be joined in marriage only if the juvenile court has filed a consent to the marriage under section 3101.04 of the Revised Code. (B) If […]
Effective: April 8, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 132nd General Assembly When the juvenile court files a consent to marriage pursuant to the juvenile rules, the probate court may issue a license not earlier than fourteen calendar days after the juvenile court files the consent, notwithstanding either or both the contracting parties for […]
Effective: April 8, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 132nd General Assembly In determining whether to file the consent under section 3101.04 of the Revised Code, the juvenile court shall do all of the following: (A) Consult with any of the following for each party to the intended marriage who is seventeen years of […]
Effective: April 8, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 132nd General Assembly When the juvenile court files a consent to marriage pursuant to the juvenile rules, the court shall also issue an order regarding each party to the marriage who is seventeen years of age. The court order shall specify that the party has […]
Effective: April 8, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The parties to a marriage shall make an application for a marriage license. Each of the persons seeking a marriage license shall personally appear in the probate court within the county where either resides, or, if neither is a resident of […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a probate court shall make available to any person for inspection the records pertaining to the issuance of marriage licenses as provided under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. (B) Before it […]
Effective: April 9, 1981 Latest Legislation: House Bill 965 – 113th General Assembly No marriage license shall be granted when either of the applicants is under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or controlled substance or is infected with syphilis in a form that is communicable or likely to become communicable. Last updated November 3, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No marriage license shall be effective nor shall it authorize the performance of a marriage ceremony after the expiration of sixty days from the date of issuance. This provision shall be printed on each license in prominent type.
Effective: April 11, 1991 Latest Legislation: House Bill 211 – 118th General Assembly An ordained or licensed minister of any religious society or congregation within this state who is licensed to solemnize marriages, a judge of a county court in accordance with section 1907.18 of the Revised Code, a judge of a municipal court in […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person, except those legally authorized, shall attempt to solemnize a marriage, and no marriage shall be solemnized without the issuance of a license.
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly A minister upon producing to the secretary of state, credentials of the minister’s being a regularly ordained or licensed minister of any religious society or congregation, shall be entitled to receive from the secretary of state a license authorizing the minister to […]
Effective: June 4, 1976 Latest Legislation: House Bill 740 – 111th General Assembly The secretary of state shall enter the name of a minister licensed to solemnize marriages upon a record kept in the office of the secretary of state.
Effective: June 4, 1976 Latest Legislation: House Bill 740 – 111th General Assembly When the name of a minister licensed to solemnized marriages is entered upon the record by the secretary of state, such record and the license issued under section 3101.10 of the Revised Code shall be evidence that such minister is authorized to […]
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in this section, a certificate of every marriage solemnized shall be transmitted by the authorized person solemnizing the marriage, within thirty days after the solemnization, to the probate judge of the county in which the marriage license was […]
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly Every marriage license shall have printed upon it in prominent type the notice that, unless the person solemnizing the marriage returns a certificate of the solemnized marriage to the probate court that issued the marriage license within thirty days after performing the […]
Effective: May 15, 1996 Latest Legislation: House Bill 266 – 121st General Assembly A person who is not a party to a marriage, when both parties to the marriage are deceased or otherwise unable to correct the certificate of marriage of the parties, and who claims that the facts stated in a certificate of marriage […]
Effective: April 11, 1991 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 3 – 118th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3101.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a violation of section 2921.13 of the Revised Code. Whoever violates any other provision of section 3101.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. […]
