Utah Code 30-1-2.4
Recognition and validation of a marriage regardless of the race, ethnicity, or national origin of the parties.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Eligible couple" means two individuals that may legally marry each other in this state.
(b) "Specified characteristic" means the race, ethnicity, or national origin of a party to the
marriage.
(2) Regardless of the date of the marriage, a marriage between two individuals may not be
deemed invalid or prohibited because of a specified characteristic.
(3) The office of a county clerk may not refuse to issue a marriage license to an eligible couple
because of a specified characteristic.
(4)
(a) The office of a county clerk may not refuse to solemnize the marriage of an eligible couple
because of a specified characteristic.
(b) Subsection (4)(a) does not prevent a county clerk from delegating or deputizing another
individual to solemnize a marriage in accordance with Subsections 17-20-4(2) and 30-1-6(2)
(l).
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Enacted by Chapter 325, 2024 General Session, eff. 5/1/2024
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§ 30-1-30
Premarital counseling or education -- State policy -- Applicability.
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§ 30-1-4
Validity of foreign marriages -- Exceptions.
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§ 30-1-17.2
Action to determine validity of marriage -- Orders relating to parties, property, and children -- Presumption of paternity in marriage.
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§ 30-1-10
Affidavit before the clerk -- Penalty.
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§ 30-1-31
Premarital counseling board in county -- Appointment, terms, compensation, offices -- Common counseling board with adjacent county.
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§ 30-1-34
Completion of counseling or education.
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§ 30-1-38
Fee for counseling.
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§ 30-1-2.2 Repealed
Validation of interracial marriages.
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§ 30-1-5
Marriage solemnization -- Before unauthorized person -- Validity.
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§ 30-1-2.4
Recognition and validation of a marriage regardless of the race, ethnicity, or national origin of the parties.
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§ 30-1-7
Marriage licenses -- Use within state -- Solemnization requirements -- Expiration.
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§ 30-1-4.5
Validity of marriage not solemnized.
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§ 30-1-8
Application for license -- Contents -- Power of attorney not permitted.
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§ 30-1-6
Who may solemnize marriages -- Certificate.
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§ 30-1-2.3
Validation of marriage to a person with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or other sexually transmitted disease.
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§ 30-1-3
Marriage in belief of death or divorce of former spouse -- Issue legitimate.
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§ 30-1-1
Incestuous marriages void.
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§ 30-1-2
Marriages prohibited and void.
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§ 30-1-2.1
Validation of marriage to a person subject to chronic epileptic fits who had not been sterilized.
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§ 30-1-4.1
Marriage recognition policy.
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§ 30-1-9
Marriage by minors -- Consent of parent or guardian -- Juvenile court authorization.
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§ 30-1-9.1
Parental consent to prohibited marriage of minor -- Penalty.
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§ 30-1-17.4
Action for annulment or divorce as alternative relief.
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§ 30-1-12
Clerk to file license and certificate.
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§ 30-1-14
Acting without authority -- Penalty.
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§ 30-1-13
Solemnization without license -- Penalty.
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§ 30-1-15
Solemnization of prohibited marriage -- Penalty.
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§ 30-1-16
Misconduct of county clerk -- Penalty.
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§ 30-1-17
Action to determine validity of marriage -- Judgment of validity or annulment.
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§ 30-1-17.1
Annulment -- Grounds for.
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§ 30-1-17.3
Age as basis of action to determine validity of marriage -- Refusal to grant annulment.
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§ 30-1-11
Return of license after ceremony -- Penalty for failure to return -- Criminal penalty for false statement.
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§ 30-1-32
Master plan for counseling.
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§ 30-1-33
Conformity to master plan for counseling as prerequisite to marriage license -- Exceptions.
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§ 30-1-35
Persons performing counseling services designated by board -- Exemption from license requirements.
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§ 30-1-36
Activities included in premarital counseling or education.
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§ 30-1-37
Confidentiality of information obtained under counseling provisions.
