1.26.100 - Marriage License, When Authorized; Corrections; Contents

(a) If all the provisions of this chapter are complied with, and if there is no prohibition against or legal objection to the marriage, the clerk shall issue a marriage license. With each marriage license the clerk of court shall provide a pamphlet describing the causes and effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. After the application for the marriage license the clerk shall, upon the sworn statement of either the applicants, correct any erroneous, false or insufficient statement in the marriage license or in the application therefor which shall come to the clerk's attention prior to the marriage and shall show the corrected statement as soon as reasonably possible to the other applicant.

(b) The marriage license shall authorize the marriage ceremony to be performed on the Reservation. The officiating person shall determine that the parties presenting themselves to be married are the parties named in the marriage license. If aware of any legal impediment to such marriage, the person shall refuse to perform the ceremony. The issuance of a marriage license shall not be deemed to remove or dispense with any legal disability, impediment or prohibition rendering marriage between the parties illegal, and the marriage license shall contain a statement to that effect.