STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Senators Hardiman, Cropsey, Jelinek, Garcia, Birkholz, Kuipers, Goschka, Brown and McManus

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 963

AN ACT to amend 1887 PA 128, entitled "An act establishing the minimum ages for contracting marriages; to require a civil license in order to marry and its registration; to provide for the implementation of federal law; and to provide a penalty for the violation of this act," by amending section 4 (MCL 551.104).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 4. The cleric or magistrate officiating at a marriage shall fill in the spaces of the certificate left blank for the entry of the time and place of the marriage, the names and residences of 2 witnesses, and his or her own signature in certification that the marriage has been performed by him or her. Based upon information provided by the parties, the cleric or magistrate shall fill in the appropriate space of the certificate indicating whether the parties have or have not received premarital education. For parties who have received premarital education, the parties shall verify completion of the premarital education by a sworn statement to that effect in the license or certificate. Information required to be filled in in the spaces left blank in the certificate shall be typewritten or legibly printed. He or she shall separate the duplicate license and certificate, deliver the half part designated duplicate to 1 of the parties to the marriage, and within 10 days return the original to the county clerk who issued them. The cleric or magistrate shall keep an accurate record of all marriages solemnized in a book used expressly for that purpose. As used in this section, "premarital education" means a program as provided for in section 2b.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect October 1, 2005.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 959.

(b) Senate Bill No. 961.

(c) Senate Bill No. 964.

(d) Senate Bill No. 966.

(e) House Bill No. 5467.

(f) House Bill No. 5468.

(g) House Bill No. 5469.

(h) House Bill No. 5470.

(i) House Bill No. 5471.

(j) House Bill No. 5473.

(k) House Bill No. 5474.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor