2010 Rhode Island Code
Title 15 Domestic Relations
CHAPTER 15-3 Solemnization of Marriages
§ 15-3-11 Knowingly performing bigamous marriage.
§ 15-3-11 Knowingly performing bigamous marriage. – Every person authorized by law to join persons in marriage, who joins in marriage any woman or man that he or she knows to have a husband or wife living, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six (6) months or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000).
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 191, § 21; P.L. 1898, ch. 549, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 243, § 21; G.L. 1923, ch. 287, § 21; G.L. 1938, ch. 415, § 21; G.L. 1956, § 15-3-11.)
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