N.Y. Dom. Rel. Law § 13-B

NEW YORK DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW (Chapter 14) § 13-B — Time within which marriage may be solemnized DRL § 13-B Time within which marriage may be solemnized /legislation/laws/DOM/A3 § 13-b. Time within which marriage may be solemnized. A marriage shallnot be solemnized within twenty-four hours after the issuance of themarriage license, unless authorized by an order of a court of record ashereinafter provided, nor shall it be solemnized after sixty days fromthe date of the issuance of the marriage license unless authorizedpursuant to section ten of the veterans' services law. Every license tomarry hereafter issued by a town or city clerk, in addition to otherrequirements specified by this chapter, must contain a statement of theday and the hour the license is issued and the period during which themarriage may be solemnized. It shall be the duty of the clergyman,magistrate, or one-day marriage officiant, as designated by a town orcity clerk pursuant to section eleven-d of this article, performing themarriage ceremony, or if the marriage is solemnized by written contract,of the judge before whom the contract is acknowledged, to annex to orendorse upon the marriage license the date and hour the marriage issolemnized. A judge or justice of the supreme court of this state or thecounty judge of the county in which either party to be married resides,or the judge of the family court of such county, if it shall appear froman examination of the license and any other proofs submitted by theparties that one of the parties is in danger of imminent death, or byreason of other emergency public interest will be promoted thereby, orthat such delay will work irreparable injury or great hardship upon thecontracting parties, or one of them, may, make an order authorizing theimmediate solemnization of the marriage and upon filing such order withthe clergyman, magistrate, or one-day marriage officiant performing themarriage ceremony, or if the marriage is authorizing theimmediate solemnization of the marriage and upon filing such order withthe clergyman, magistrate, or one-day marriage officiant performing themarriage ceremony, or if the marriage is to be solemnized by writtencontract, with the judge before whom the contract is acknowledged, suchclergyman, magistrate or such one-day marriage officiant may solemnizesuch marriage, or such judge may take such acknowledgment as the casemay be, without waiting for such three day period and twenty-four hourperiod to elapse. The clergyman, magistrate, judge, or such one-daymarriage officiant, as designated by a town or city clerk pursuant tosection eleven-d of this article, must file such order with the town orcity clerk who issued the license within five days after the marriage issolemnized. Such town or city clerk must record and index the order inthe book required to be kept by him or her for recording affidavits,statements, consents and licenses, and when so recorded the order shallbecome a public record and available in any prosecution under thissection. A person who shall solemnize a marriage in violation of thissection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereofshall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each offense, and inaddition thereto, his or her right to solemnize a marriage shall besuspended for ninety days. Source: NYSenate.gov Open Legislation | Laws of New York Page 1