Section 35. The fee for lawfully solemnizing and certifying a marriage shall not exceed $100 if performed in the justice of the peace's home community or $150 if performed in any municipality in the commonwealth; provided, however, that no additional charge shall be made for travel in connection with such solemnization notwithstanding any law to the contrary. Nor shall any additional charge be made by a justice of the peace, for providing flowers, for providing music, for providing a photographer, for providing a location where the marriage ceremony takes place, or for providing an unofficial certificate of marriage. Additional charges are allowable for prenuptial counseling conferences, rehearsals, and other special requests by the couple whose marriage is being solemnized; provided, however, that the amount of these additional charges must be disclosed in writing to the couple whose marriage is being solemnized at least forty-eight hours prior to the rendering of these services. The total fee for lawfully solemnizing and certifying a marriage shall not exceed the fee limit fixed for solemnizing and certifying a marriage in a justice of the peace's home community where a municipal employee who is also a justice of the peace solemnizes a marriage in a municipal building at a time when said building is regularly open for business.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers
Section 2 - Fees of Clerks of District and Boston Municipal Court Departments in Civil Actions
Section 3a - Child Support Collection Services; Fee
Section 4 - Fees of Clerks of Supreme Judicial, County and Appeals Courts
Section 4a - Clerks of Superior Court Department
Section 4b - Uniform Schedule of Fees
Section 4c - Surcharge on Filing Fees
Section 5 - Copies Provided by Clerks
Section 6 - Record of Judgment; Additional Fees
Section 7 - Manner of Collection
Section 8 - Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs and Constables; Enumeration of Fees
Section 8a - Annual Accounts of Deputy Sheriffs and Constables
Section 9 - Process; Service; Return by Mail
Section 10 - Conveyance; Necessity of Certificate
Section 11 - Leaving Copy of Writ
Section 12 - Deputy Sheriff; Attendance Upon Meetings of County Commissioners
Section 13 - Precepts for Elections; Subpoenas of General Court; Service
Section 14 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings
Section 15 - Copies of Process
Section 16 - Service of Process Issued by Land Court
Section 17 - Execution of Ejectment; Service
Section 18 - Officers; Duty to Specify Items of Fees
Section 19 - Endorsement of Fees; Certificate of Use of Conveyance; Penalty
Section 20 - Search for Person Named in Process
Section 21 - Criminal Cases; Allowance of Expenses
Section 22 - Attendance Upon Certain Courts
Section 23 - Examination of Sureties; Approval of Bonds
Section 24 - Bail Fees; Persons Authorized to Take Bail; Restrictions
Section 25 - Compensation of Jurors
Section 26 - Inquests; Service of Process
Section 27 - Juvenile Offenders; Officer as a Witness
Section 30 - Witness Held in Jail
Section 31 - Appraisers; Compensation
Section 32 - Interpreters and Nonresident Witnesses
Section 33 - Witnesses in Delinquency Cases
Section 34 - Town Clerks; Enumeration of Fees
Section 37 - Records or Papers; Examination
Section 38 - Registers of Deeds' Enumeration of Fees
Section 39 - Land Court; Numeration of Fees
Section 40 - Registers of Probate and Family Court; Enumeration of Fees
Section 40a - Child Support Collection Services; Fee
Section 41 - Notaries Public; Enumeration of Fees
Section 42 - Commissioners in Other States; Enumeration of Fees
Section 44a - Certified Copies of Vital Records; Exemption
Section 46 - List of Fees; Manner of Posting
Section 46a - Copies of Records Concerning Veterans; Furnishings Without Charge
Section 47 - Criminal Cases; Return of Expense Under Oath
Section 48 - Criminal Cases; Service of Several Processes on Single Defendant; Allowance of Fees
Section 49 - Mittimus; Fees for Issuance or Service; Limitations
Section 50 - Salaried Officers; Limitation on Acceptance of Fees; Penalty
Section 51 - Criminal Cases; Additional Fees and Expenses
Section 53b - Witness Fees of Uniformed Members of Department of State Police
Section 53c - Compensatory Time Off to Police Officers
Section 56 - Witness Fees of Public Officers; Disallowance
Section 57 - Public Officers as Witnesses; Allowance of Expenses
Section 59 - Witness in Multiple Criminal Cases; Apportionment of Fees
Section 60 - Witnesses' Fees; Refusal in Certain Cases
Section 61 - Witness Certificates; Purchase of Orders, etc., by Officers Prohibited
Section 62 - False Certificates of Witnesses; Penalty