Arkansas Marriage Laws | § 9-11-220

Arkansas Code Annotated 9-11-220

Duty of clerk on return of license — Issuance of certificate.

(a) Upon the return of any license officially signed as having been executed and that the parties therein named have been duly and according to law joined in marriage, the clerk issuing the license shall make a record thereof in the marriage record in his or her office. (b) The clerk shall immediately make out a certificate of the record, giving the names, date, book, and page, together with the name of the county and state, and attach the certificate to the license and return the license to the party presenting it. (c) The certificate shall be sealed with the county seal. (d) The circuit clerks in counties having two (2) judicial districts shall keep a record at the county site of each district in which marriage licenses shall be recorded. (e) (1) If a license has been returned and recorded by the clerk that contains clerical or scrivener's errors, the licensee may submit proof of the error to the circuit court in an ex parte proceeding. (2) The court, upon a finding of error, shall order the county clerk to correct the errors on the license. (3) The licensee shall not be charged a fee for filing a request to correct clerical or scrivener's errors. (f) On the face of the certificate shall appear the certification to the fact of marriage, including, if applicable, a designation that the parties entered into a covenant marriage signed by the parties to the marriage and the witnesses, and the signature and title of the officiant.

(Acts 1875, No. 127, § 9, p. 260; 1901, No. 123, § 2, p. 194; C. & M. Dig., §§ 7059, 7067; Pope's Dig., §§ 9041, 9049; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 55-226, 55-227; Acts 2001, No. 751, § 1; 2001, No. 1486, § 4; 2015, No. 1127, § 3.)

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§ 9-11-213 Persons who may solemnize marriages.
§ 9-11-101 Marriage a civil contract — Consent of parties.
§ 9-11-103 Minimum age — Exception.
§ 9-11-104 Minimum age — Lack of parental consent or misrepresentation of age — Annulment.
§ 9-11-106 Incestuous marriages — Penalties for entering into or solemnizing.
§ 9-11-107 Validity of foreign marriages.
§ 9-11-108 Presumption of spouse's death — Validity of subsequent marriage.
§ 9-11-109 Validity of same-sex marriages.
§ 9-11-202 Form of license.
§ 9-11-204 Issuance of license unlawfully — Penalty.
§ 9-11-206 Clerk's fees.
§ 9-11-207 Applicants for marriage licenses to be sober.
§ 9-11-208 License not issued to persons of the same sex.
§ 9-11-215 Marriage ceremony.
§ 9-11-210 Bond of applicant.
§ 9-11-212 Application without other's consent — Penalties — Damages.
§ 9-11-214 Recordation of credentials of clerical character.
§ 9-11-217 Failure to sign and return license at time of marriage — Penalty.
§ 9-11-218 Return of executed license to clerk — Effect on bond.
§ 9-11-219 False return or record — Penalty.
§ 9-11-221 Certified copies of record as evidence.
§ 9-11-301 Execution of contract.
§ 9-11-302 Acknowledgment or proof.
§ 9-11-801 Title.
§ 9-11-304 Effect of unrecorded contract.
§ 9-11-305 Contract or copy as evidence — Conclusiveness.
§ 9-11-701 Persons acting for clerk.
§ 9-11-702 Marriages performed by mayors.
§ 9-11-703 Recordation of credentials of clerical character — Applicability of § 9-11-214.
§ 9-11-704 Marriages solemnized out of county.
§ 9-11-706 Marriage before entry of divorce decree.
§ 9-11-705 Marriages solemnized by municipal court judges.
§ 9-11-803 Covenant marriage.
§ 9-11-805 Form of affidavit.
§ 9-11-806 Other applicable rules.
§ 9-11-809 Suit against spouse — Separation.
§ 9-11-810 Effects of separation.
§ 9-11-811 Informational pamphlet.
§ 9-11-211 Military personnel — Waiver of certain license requirements — Proceedings.
§ 9-11-201 Licenses required.
§ 9-11-216 Solemnization contrary to law — Penalty.
§ 9-11-203 Issuance by clerks.
§ 9-11-102 Minimum age — Parental consent — Definition.
§ 9-11-802 Definitions.
§ 9-11-105 Marriage of underage parties voidable.
§ 9-11-209 Proof of age — Parental consent.
§ 9-11-807 Applicability to already married couples.
§ 9-11-205 Notice of intention to wed — Noncompliance, penalties, and effect.
§ 9-11-220 Duty of clerk on return of license — Issuance of certificate.
§ 9-11-303 Recordation — Effect.
§ 9-11-804 Content of declaration of intent.
§ 9-11-808 Divorce or separation.