If any person knowingly perform the ceremony of marriage without lawful license, or officiate in celebrating the rites of marriage without being authorized by law to do so, he shall be confined in jail not exceeding one year, and fined not exceeding $500.
Code 1919, § 4542.
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