Bill Text: NJ A2128 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits certain former mayors to solemnize marriage and civil union ceremonies.**

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-01-17 - Approved P.L.2013, c.242. [A2128 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2128-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2128

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 30, 2012

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Assemblyman  RONALD S. DANCER

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblywoman  CELESTE M. RILEY

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits freeholders and municipal clerks to solemnize marriage and civil union ceremonies.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the General Assembly on June 21, 2012.

  

An Act concerning marriages and civil unions and amending R.S.37:1-13.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    R.S.37:1-13 is amended to read as follows:

     37:1-13.  Authorization to solemnize marriages and civil unions.

     Each judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, each judge of a federal district court, United States magistrate, judge of a municipal court, judge of the Superior Court, judge of a tax court, retired judge of the Superior Court or Tax Court, or judge of the Superior Court or Tax Court, the former County Court, the former County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, or the former County District Court who has resigned in good standing, surrogate of any county, freeholder, county clerk and any mayor ¹or former mayor¹ or the deputy mayor when authorized by the mayor, [or] chairman of any township committee or village president of this State, or municipal clerk ¹of this State¹, and every minister of every religion, are hereby authorized to solemnize marriages or civil unions between such persons as may lawfully enter into the matrimonial relation or civil union; and every religious society, institution or organization in this State may join together in marriage or civil union such persons according to the rules and customs of the society, institution or organization.

(cf: P.L.2006, c.103, s.17)

 

     2. This act shall take effect immediately.