CHAPTER 1. Persons Authorized to Solemnize Marriage [400. - 402.]

Chapter 1 enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10.

§§ 400–402 · 3 sections

• § 400 (a) Although marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil, and not a religious, contract, a marriage may be solemnized by a priest, minister, rabbi,…
• § 401 (a) For each county, the county clerk is designated as a commissioner of civil marriages. (b) The commissioner of civil marriages may appoint deputy…
• § 402 In addition to the persons permitted to solemnize marriages under Section 400, a county may license officials of a nonprofit religious institution, whose…