Effective - 28 Aug 2001
451.080. Recorder to issue license — form of. — 1. The recorders of the several counties of this state, and the recorder of the city of St. Louis, shall, when applied to by any person legally entitled to a marriage license, issue the same which may be in the following form:
2. If the man is under eighteen or the woman under eighteen, add the following:
3. On which such license the person solemnizing the marriage shall, within fifteen days after the issuing thereof, make as near as may be the following return, and return such license to the officer issuing the same:
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(RSMo 1939 § 3365, A.L. 1974 2d Ex. Sess. H.B. 11, A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 2001 H.B. 157)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2978; 1919 § 7303; 1909 § 8284
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXX - Domestic Relations
Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
Section 451.010 - Marriage a civil contract.
Section 451.022 - Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.
Section 451.030 - Bigamous marriage void.
Section 451.080 - Recorder to issue license — form of.
Section 451.100 - Marriages solemnized by whom.
Section 451.110 - Certificate of marriage to be given.
Section 451.115 - Marriages illegally solemnized — penalty.
Section 451.130 - Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.
Section 451.150 - Licenses to be recorded — fee.
Section 451.160 - Names of children born before marriage shall be recorded.
Section 451.170 - Lost record of marriage supplied, how.
Section 451.180 - New certificate obtained, how.
Section 451.190 - Record supplied by certificate of witnesses, how.
Section 451.200 - Certificates and affidavits recorded when records lost or destroyed — fee.
Section 451.210 - Rerecording where marriage records are destroyed — fee.
Section 451.220 - Marriage contracts to be in writing, acknowledged or proved.
Section 451.230 - How acknowledged or proved — to be recorded, where.
Section 451.240 - Contract so recorded shall impart notice, to whom.
Section 451.270 - Property of married person exempt from debts of spouse incurred before marriage.