Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 451 - Marriage, Marriage Contracts, and Rights of Married Women
Section 451.130 - Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.

Effective - 28 Aug 2001
451.130. Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license. — 1. If any recorder willfully neglect or refuse to issue a license to any person legally entitled thereto on application, on payment or tender of the fee provided for in section 451.150, or shall fail to refuse to record such license, with the return thereon, as herein provided, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.
2. Every officer or person who shall fail to return a license within fifteen days after the issuing of the same, or who shall make a false return thereon, or any recorder who shall willfully make a false record of any marriage license or return thereon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in the preceding part of this section.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3367, A.L. 2001 H.B. 157)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2980; 1919 § 7305; 1909 § 8286

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Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

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 451.020 - Certain marriages prohibited — official issuing licenses to certain persons guilty of misdemeanor.

Section 451.022 - Public policy, same sex marriages prohibited — license may not be issued.

Section 451.030 - Bigamous marriage void.

Section 451.040 - Marriage license required, waiting period — presence not required, when — application, contents — license void when — common law of marriages void — lack of authority to perform marriage, effect — online applications, procedure.

Section 451.080 - Recorder to issue license — form of.