Maryland Marriage Laws | § 2-501

Maryland Family Law 2-501

Marriage license book

Each clerk shall keep in the clerk's office a marriage license book, which shall contain: (1) a complete record of each license issued; (2) a complete record of all matters the clerk is required to ascertain that relate to the rights of an individual to obtain a license; (3) in regular order, the items testified to by the applicants for a license as required under this title; (4) properly indexed, the name of each individual who intends to be married; and (5) the date each certificate was filed and the name of the authorized official who performed the ceremony.

An. Code 1957, art. 62, § 8; 1984, ch. 296, § 2.

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