STATE OF NEW YORK
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7712
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 17, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to authorizing
former mayors to solemnize a marriage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 11 of the domestic relations law,
2 as amended by section 1 of subpart E of part B of chapter 20 of the laws
3 of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
4 2. The current or a former governor, a mayor or former mayor of a
5 village, a county executive of a county, or a mayor or former mayor,
6 recorder, city magistrate, police justice or police magistrate of a
7 city, a mayor or former mayor or the city clerk of a city of the first
8 class of over one million inhabitants or any of his or her deputies or
9 not more than four regular clerks, designated by him or her for such
10 purpose as provided in section eleven-a of this article, except that in
11 cities which contain more than one hundred thousand and less than one
12 million inhabitants, a marriage shall be solemnized by the mayor, former
13 mayor, or police justice, and by no other officer of such city, except
14 as provided in subdivisions one and three of this section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08855-01-9
