PRINTER'S NO.  1646

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

1208

Session of

2010

  

  

INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, TARTAGLIONE, COSTA AND LEACH, FEBRUARY 1, 2010

  

  

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, further providing for persons

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qualified to solemnize marriages.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 1503(b) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, amended July 14, 2009 (P.L.81, No.18), is

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amended to read:

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§ 1503.  Persons qualified to solemnize marriages.

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(b)  Religious organizations.--Every religious society,

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religious institution or religious organization in this

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Commonwealth may join persons together in marriage [when at

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least one of the persons is a member of the society, institution

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or organization, according to the rules and customs of the

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society, institution or organization].

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.