2015 Utah Code
Title 30 - Husband and Wife
Chapter 1 - Marriage
Section 33 - Conformity to master plan for counseling as prerequisite to marriage license -- Exceptions.

30-1-33. Conformity to master plan for counseling as prerequisite to marriage license -- Exceptions.
Whenever the board of commissioners of a county has adopted a master plan for premarital counseling no resident of the county may obtain a marriage license without conforming to the plan, except that:

• (1) Any person who applies for a marriage license shall have the right to secure the license and to marry notwithstanding their failure to conform to the required premarital counseling or their failure to obtain a certificate of authorization from the premarital counseling board if they wait six months from the date of application for issuance of the license.

• (2) This chapter does not apply to any application for a marriage license where both parties are at least 19 years of age and neither has been previously divorced.

• (3) This chapter does not apply to any application for a marriage license unless both applicants have physically resided in Utah for 60 days immediately preceding their application.

• (4) Premarital counseling required by this act shall be considered fulfilled if the applicants present a certificate verified by a clergyman that the applicants have completed a course of premarital counseling approved by a church and given by or under the supervision of the clergyman.

Amended by Chapter 297, 2011 General Session