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RSMo 451.080effective 28 Aug 2025

Recorder to issue license

In plain English

The county recorder's office gives out marriage licenses to people who are allowed to get one. After the wedding happens, the person who performed the ceremony has 15 days to fill out part of the license and send it back to the recorder's office.

Word-for-word law

451.080. to — 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. On which such license the person the marriage shall, within fifteen days after the issuing thereof, make as near as may be the following , and return such license to the officer issuing the same:

(RSMo 1939 § 3365, A.L. 1974 2d Ex. Sess. H.B. 11, A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 2001 H.B. 157, A.L. 2025 H.B. 737 & 486 merged with S.B. 43)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2978; 1919 § 7303; 1909 § 8284

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