§572-6 - Application; license; limitations.

§572-6  Application; license; limitations. 
To secure a license to marry, the persons applying for the license shall appear
personally before an agent authorized to grant marriage licenses and shall file
with the agent an application in writing.  The application shall be accompanied
by a statement signed and sworn to by each of the persons, setting forth:  the
person's full name, date of birth, social security number, residence; their
relationship, if any; the full names of parents; and that all prior marriages,
if any, have been dissolved by death or dissolution.  If all prior marriages
have been dissolved by death or dissolution, the statement shall also set forth
the date of death of the last prior spouse or the date and jurisdiction in
which the last decree of dissolution was entered.  Any other information
consistent with the standard marriage certificate as recommended by the Public
Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics, may be requested for
statistical or other purposes, subject to approval of and modification by the
department of health; provided that the information shall be provided at the
option of the applicant and no applicant shall be denied a license for failure
to provide the information.  The agent shall indorse on the application, over
the agent's signature, the date of the filing thereof and shall issue a license
which shall bear on its face the date of issuance.  Every license shall be of
full force and effect for thirty days commencing from and including the date of
issuance.  After the thirty-day period, the license shall become void and no
marriage ceremony shall be performed thereon.

It shall be the duty of every person, legally
authorized to grant licenses to marry, to immediately report the issuance of
every marriage license to the agent of the department of health in the district
in which the license is issued, setting forth all facts required to be stated
in such manner and on such form as the department may prescribe. [L 1929, c
104, §3; RL 1935, §4635; RL 1945, §12356; RL 1955, §323-6; am L Sp 1959 2d, c
1, §19; HRS §572-6; am L 1969, c 191, §1; am L 1974, c 31, §1; gen ch 1985; am
L 1989, c 35, §1; am L 1997, c 293, §25]

Attorney General Opinions

  Power to waive three-day waiting period is vested in district
magistrates only, not in circuit court judges.  Att. Gen. Op. 64-56.

Case Notes

  Cited:  74 H. 530, 852 P.2d 44.