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2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 19 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
CHAPTER 3 - MARRIAGE GENERALLY
ARTICLE 2 - LICENSE AND CEREMONY
§ 19-3-48 - Penalty for officiating at illegal marriage ceremony
O.C.G.A. 19-3-48 (2010)19-3-48. Penalty for officiating at illegal marriage ceremony
If the Governor or any former Governor of this state, any judge, city recorder, magistrate, minister, or other person authorized to perform the marriage ceremony joins together in matrimony any man and woman without a license or the publication of banns or if the person performing the marriage ceremony knows of any disability of either of the parties which would render a contract of marriage improper and illegal, that person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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