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2024 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XLIII - Domestic Relations
Chapter 457 - Marriages
Section 457:8 - Prohibitions.

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NH Rev Stat § 457:8 (2024)
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[RSA 457:8 effective until January 1, 2025; see also RSA 457:8 set out below.]
    457:8 Prohibitions. – No town clerk shall issue any certificate for the marriage of any person below the age of consent, and no magistrate or minister of religion shall solemnize the marriage of any such person, if such clerk, magistrate or minister knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such person is below such age, unless permission for such marriage has been given under this subdivision. No magistrate or minister of religion shall solemnize any marriage by proxy.
[RSA 457:8 effective January 1, 2025; see also RSA 457:8 above.]
    457:8 Prohibitions. – No town clerk shall issue any certificate for the marriage of any person below the age of 18, and no magistrate or minister of religion shall solemnize the marriage of any such person, if such clerk, magistrate, or minister knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such person is below such age. No magistrate or minister of religion shall solemnize any marriage by proxy.

Source. 1907, 80:4. PL 286:8. RL 338:8. RSA 457:8. 1987, 218:4, eff. July 17, 1987. 2024, 81:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2025.

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