Every marriage license issued under § 20-14 shall constitute authority for a period of only sixty days from the date of issuance for the solemnization of a marriage of the licensees. Whenever such sixty-day period shall have elapsed without the solemnization of a marriage of the licensees, the license shall expire.
The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent licensees from applying for or receiving an additional license, either before or after expiration of any license, but no new license shall be issued except in compliance with all provisions of law applicable to the issuance of a license in the first instance.
1958, c. 8; 1968, c. 318.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 2 - Marriage Generally
§ 20-13. License and solemnization required
§ 20-14. By whom license to be issued
§ 20-14.1. Duration of license; issuance of additional licenses
§ 20-16. Issuance of marriage licenses and marriage certificates
§ 20-16.1. Clerk authorized to amend marriage records
§ 20-21. Clerk to furnish attorney for the Commonwealth list of licenses not returned by minister
§ 20-23. Order authorizing ministers to perform ceremony
§ 20-24. Penalty for failure to certify record of marriage
§ 20-25. Persons other than ministers who may perform rites
§ 20-26. Marriage between members of religious society having no minister
§ 20-27. Fee for celebrating marriage
§ 20-28. Penalty for celebrating marriage without license
§ 20-30. Licenses of persons on federal reservations
§ 20-31. Belief of parties in lawful marriage validates certain defects
§ 20-33. Penalty for clerk issuing license contrary to law
§ 20-37. Validation of certain marriages when license issued by clerk of county court
§ 20-37.1. Validation of certain marriages solemnized outside of Commonwealth