ARTICLE 39. - OFFICIALS EMPOWERED TO JOIN PERSONS IN MARRIAGE

Sec. 1. - General Laws amended.#

Section 15-3-5 of the General Laws [G.L. 1956, § 15-3-5] in Chapter 15-3 entitled "Solemnization of Marriages" is hereby amended to read as follows: 15-3-5. Officials empowered to join persons in marriage. Every ordained clergy or elder in good standing, every justice of the supreme court, superior court, family court, or district court, every associate justice, the clerk of the supreme court, every clerk of a superior court, family court, or district court, every former justice of these courts and every former chief clerk of the district court may join persons in marriage in any town in this state; and every justice and every former justice of the municipal courts of the cities of Providence, Pawtucket, Warwick, Cranston, and every justice and every former justice of the municipal court of the town of West Warwick, and of the police court of the town of Johnston may join persons in marriage in any city or town in this state, and wardens of the town of New Shoreham may join persons in marriage in New Shoreham.

(Laws 1990, ch. 139, § 1)