Virgin Islands Annotated Code :: 16 V.I.C. § 38. Issuance of marriage license; form
§ 38. Issuance of marriage license; form:
(a) If it appears from the examination required by section 35 of this title that the parties are legally competent to marry, and if the provisions of sections 36 and 37 of this title, should they be applicable, have been complied with, the Superior Court shall issue a license addressed to some particular minister, judge or other person authorized to solemnize marriage, which shall be in the following form:
Number
To authorized to celebrate marriage in the Virgin Islands, Greeting:
You are hereby authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage between of and of , and having done so, you are commanded to make return of same to this court within ten days under a penalty of $50 for default therein. This license is valid for three months only.
Witness my hand and Seal of the Superior Court of this day of Anno Domini .
, Judge.
(b) Said return shall be made in person or by mail on a coupon issued with said license and bearing a corresponding number therewith within ten days from the time of the marriage, and shall be in the following form:
Number
I, who have been duly authorized to celebrate the rites of marriage in the Virgin Islands, do hereby certify that, by authority of a license of corresponding number herewith, I solemnized the marriage of and named therein, on the day of at in the Virgin Islands.
(c) A second coupon, of corresponding number with the license, shall be attached to and issued with the license, to be given to the contracting parties by the minister or other person to whom such license was addressed, and shall be in the following form:
Number
I hereby certify that on this day of at , and were by me united in marriage in accordance with the license issued by the Superior Court of .
(d) The forms prescribed in subsections (b) and (c) of this section shall be signed and dated by the persons executing them.
—Amended May 16, 1957, No. 160, § 32, Sess. L. 1957, p. 29; Sept. 9, 1976, No 3876, § 5, Sess. L. 1976, p. 197. ; Statutes current through Act 8439, all 2020 legislation and code changes through March 1, 2021
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