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                                  8031--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 30, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ROMEO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary -- reported and referred to the  Committee  on  Rules  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the domestic relations  law,  in  relation  to  who  may
   solemnize a marriage

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 11 of the domestic relations  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  633 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. A judge of [the] A federal circuit court of appeals [for the second
 circuit], a judge of a federal district court [for the northern,  south-
 ern,  eastern  or  western  district of New York], a judge of the United
 States court of international trade, a federal administrative law  judge
 presiding  in  this  state, a justice or judge of a court of the unified
 court system, a housing judge of the civil court  of  the  city  of  New
 York,  a  retired  justice  or  judge  of  the unified court system or a
 retired housing judge of the civil court of the city of New York  certi-
 fied pursuant to paragraph (k) of subdivision two of section two hundred
 twelve  of the judiciary law, the clerk of the appellate division of the
 supreme court in each judicial department,  a  retired  city  clerk  who
 served for more than ten years in such capacity in a city having a popu-
 lation of one million or more or a county clerk of a county wholly with-
 in cities having a population of one million or more; or,
   §  2.  Subdivision  5  of section 11 of the domestic relations law, as
 amended by chapter 264 of the laws  of  1996,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of this article, where either
 or both of the parties is under the age of  eighteen  years  a  marriage
 shall  be solemnized only by those authorized in subdivision one of this

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 section or by (1) the mayor of a city or village, or county executive of
 a county, or by (2) a judge of [the] A federal circuit court of  appeals
 [for  the  second circuit], a judge of a federal district court [for the
 northern, southern, eastern or western district of New York], a judge of
 the  United States court of international trade, or a justice or a judge
 of a court of the unified court system, or by (3) a housing judge of the
 civil court of the city of New York, or by (4) a  former  mayor  or  the
 clerk  of  a  city of the first class of over one million inhabitants or
 any of his or her deputies designated by him or her for such purposes as
 provided in section eleven-a of this chapter.
   § 3. Subdivision 6 of section 11 of the  domestic  relations  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  450  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
 follows:
   6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article to the contra-
 ry no marriage shall be solemnized by a public officer specified in this
 section, other than A JUDGE OF A FEDERAL CIRCUIT  COURT  OF  APPEALS,  a
 judge  of  a federal district court [for the northern, southern, eastern
 or western district of New York], a judge of the United States court  of
 international  trade,  a  federal  administrative law judge presiding in
 this state, a judge or justice of  the  unified  court  system  of  this
 state,  a housing judge of the civil court of the city of New York, or a
 retired judge or justice of the unified court system or a retired  hous-
 ing  judge  of  the  civil  court certified pursuant to paragraph (k) of
 subdivision two of section two hundred twelve of the judiciary law,  nor
 by  any of the persons specified in subdivision three-a of this section,
 outside the territorial jurisdiction in which he  or  she  was  elected,
 appointed or duly designated. Such a public officer, however, elected or
 appointed  within the city of New York may solemnize a marriage anywhere
 within such city.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.