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402.100 Marriage license -- Marriage certificate -- Confidentiality of Social
Security numbers.
Each county clerk shall use the form prescribed by the Department for Libraries and
Archives when issuing a marriage license. This form shall provide for the entering of
all of the information required in this section, and may also provide for the entering of
additional information prescribed by the Department for Libraries and Archives. The
form shall consist of:
(1) A marriage license which provides for the entering of:
(a) An authorization statement of the county clerk issuing the license for any
person or religious society authorized to perform marriage ceremonies to
unite in marriage the persons named;
(b) Vital information for each party, including the full name, date of birth,
place of birth, race, condition (single, widowed, or divorced), number of
previous marriages, occupation, current residence, relationship to the
other party, and full names of parents; and
(c) The date and place the license is issued, and the signature of the county
clerk or deputy clerk issuing the license.
(2) A marriage certificate which provides for the entering of:
(a) A statement by the person performing the marriage ceremony or the clerk
of the religious society authorized to solemnize the marriage ceremony
that the ceremony was performed. The statement shall include the name
and title of the person performing the ceremony or the name of the
religious society solemnizing the marriage, the names of persons married,
the date and place of the marriage, and the names of two (2) witnesses;
(b) A statement by the person performing the marriage ceremony of his legal
qualification under this chapter to perform the ceremony, such statement
to include the name of the county or city where his license to perform
marriage ceremonies was issued or, in the case of religious societies
authorized by KRS 402.050(c) to solemnize marriages, the name of the
city or county where the religious society is incorporated. The provisions
of this paragraph shall not be construed to require the clerk of a religious
society to be present at the marriage so long as the witnesses of the
society are present;
(c) A dated signature of the person performing the ceremony; and
(d) A signed statement by the county clerk or a deputy county clerk of the
county in which the marriage license was issued that the marriage
certificate was recorded. The statement shall indicate the name of the
county and the date the marriage certificate was recorded.
(3) A certificate to be delivered by the person performing the marriage ceremony
or the clerk of the religious society performing the marriage ceremony to the
parties married. This certificate shall provide for the entering of:
(a) A statement by the person performing the marriage ceremony or the clerk
of the religious society performing the marriage ceremony that the
ceremony was performed. The statement shall include the name and title
of the person performing the ceremony, or the name of the religious
society performing the ceremony, the names of persons married, the date
(4)
and place of the marriage, the names of two (2) witnesses, and the
following information as recorded on the license authorizing the marriage:
the date the license was issued, the name of the county clerk under
whose authority the license was issued, and the county in which the
license was issued; and
(b) A dated signature of the person performing the ceremony or the clerk of
the religious society performing the ceremony.
A Social Security number shall be requested as a means of identification of
each party but shall not be recorded on the marriage license or certificate.
Other means of identification may also be requested if a party does not have a
Social Security number. The Social Security number shall be forwarded to the
appropriate agency within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services that is
responsible for enforcing child support, and the number shall be stored by that
agency with a nonidentifying numeric. The Social Security number shall not be
available for public release.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 621, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 428, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1994 Ky.
Acts ch. 220, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 279,
sec. 2, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 15, sec. 1. -Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 2103.
Legislative Research Commission Note. This section was amended by 1984 Ky.
Acts ch. 111, sec. 158, and 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 279, sec. 2, which are in conflict
and cannot be compiled together. Pursuant to KRS 7.123, the amendment in ch.
279, sec. 2, the nonrevisory Act, prevails.
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