Full Text of SB2161 95th General Assembly
SB2161eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of | 5 |
| Marriage Act is amended by changing Sections 207 and 209 as | 6 |
| follows:
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| (750 ILCS 5/207) (from Ch. 40, par. 207)
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| Sec. 207. Effective Date of License.) A license to marry | 9 |
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effective in the county where it was issued one day | 10 |
| after the date of
issuance, unless the court orders that the | 11 |
| license is effective when
issued, and expires 60 days after it | 12 |
| becomes effective , provided that the marriage is not | 13 |
| invalidated by the fact that the marriage was inadvertently | 14 |
| solemnized in a county in Illinois other than the county where | 15 |
| the license was issued .
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| (Source: P.A. 81-397.)
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| (750 ILCS 5/209) (from Ch. 40, par. 209)
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| Sec. 209. Solemnization and Registration.)
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| (a) A marriage may be solemnized by a judge of a court of | 20 |
| record, by a
retired judge of a court of record, unless the | 21 |
| retired judge was removed from
office by the Judicial Inquiry | 22 |
| Board, except that a retired judge shall not
receive any |
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| compensation from the State, a county or any unit of local
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| government in return for the solemnization of a marriage and | 3 |
| there shall be no
effect upon any pension benefits conferred by | 4 |
| the Judges Retirement System of
Illinois, by a judge of the | 5 |
| Court of Claims, by a county clerk in counties
having 2,000,000 | 6 |
| or more inhabitants, by a public official whose powers include
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| solemnization of marriages, or in accordance with the | 8 |
| prescriptions of any
religious denomination, Indian Nation or | 9 |
| Tribe or Native Group, provided that
when such prescriptions | 10 |
| require an officiant, the officiant be in good standing
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| his religious denomination, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native | 12 |
| Group.
Either the person solemnizing the marriage, or, if no | 13 |
| individual acting alone
solemnized the marriage, both parties | 14 |
| to the marriage, shall complete the
marriage certificate form | 15 |
| and forward it to the county clerk within 10 days
after such | 16 |
| marriage is solemnized.
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| (b) The solemnization of the marriage is not invalidated by | 18 |
| the
fact that the person solemnizing the marriage was not | 19 |
| legally qualified
to solemnize it, if either party to the | 20 |
| marriage believed him to be so
qualified or by the fact that | 21 |
| the marriage was inadvertently solemnized in a county in | 22 |
| Illinois other than the county where the license was issued .
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| (Source: P.A. 87-1261.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January | 25 |
| 1, 2009.
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