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2021 Massachusetts General Laws
Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
Title III - Domestic Relations
Chapter 207 - Marriage
Section 48 - Solemnization of Marriage Without Authority; Penalty
Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 207 § 48 (2021)
Section 48. Whoever, not being duly authorized by the laws of the commonwealth, undertakes to join persons in marriage therein shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
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