1.26.130 Marriage Contract, How Made; Officiating Person

Marriage may be validly solemnized and contracted on this Reservation only after a marriage license has been issued therefor, and only in the following manner: by the mutual declarations of the 2 parties to be joined in marriage, made before a duly authorized officiating person and in the presence of at least 2 competent adult witnesses other than such officiating person, that they take each other as husband and wife. The following are duly authorized to be officiating persons:

(a) Any ordained clergyman of any religious denomination or society who continues to be such ordained clergyman;

(b) Any licentiate of a denominational body or an appointee of any bishop serving as the regular clergyman of any church of the denomination to which the clergyman belongs, if not restrained from doing so by the discipline of the church or denomination;

(c) Any spiritual leader recognized as such by the community.

(d) The 2 parties themselves, by such mutual declarations, in accordance with the customs, rules and regulations of any religious society, denomination or sect to which either of said parties may belong;

(e) Any tribal judge, judge of a court of record or a reserve judge appointed under Wisconsin law.

(f) Any family court commissioner or court commissioner appointed under Wisconsin law.