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213.116 Collection of data relating to marriages, divorces, and annulments.
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The cabinet shall perform the collection, indexing, tabulation, and registration of
data relating to marriages, divorces, and annulments. The secretary shall adopt
administrative regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
Each county clerk shall on or before the tenth day of each month furnish to the state
registrar, from the marriage licenses issued and the marriage certificates returned to
the clerk during the previous month, the information required by the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services upon forms prescribed and furnished by the cabinet.
The county clerk shall collect from the applicants for a marriage license at the time
the license is issued one dollar ($1), which shall constitute the clerk's fee for
forwarding the required information to the state registrar.
A marriage record not filed within the time prescribed by this section may be
registered in accordance with administrative regulations adopted by the cabinet.
In all actions for dissolution of marriage, the petitioner, or the petitioner's attorney
or legal representative, shall file, concurrently with the petition, the information
requested on forms prescribed and furnished by the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services. By January 1, 2013, these forms shall be available on the cabinet's Web
site as a downloadable document that can be completed electronically and printed.
The provisions of the information shall be prerequisite to the issuance of a final
decree in the matter by the court.
Each Circuit Court clerk shall, within forty-five (45) days after entry of a final
judgment of divorce, absolute or limited, or annulment of marriage, complete the
form prescribed and furnished by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and
forward it to the state registrar.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 127, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2012. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 440, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 426, sec. 389, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 369, sec. 22,
effective July 13, 1990.
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