CHAPTER 143

(SB 97)

Mayor's ability to solemnize marriages clarified.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  clarify a mayor's authority to solemnize marriages.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 25-1-30 be amended to read as follows:

     25-1-30.   Marriage may be solemnized by a justice of the Supreme Court, a judge of the circuit court, a magistrate, a mayor, either within or without the corporate limits of the municipality from which the mayor was elected, or any person authorized by a church to solemnize marriages.

     Signed March 7, 2003.

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