2005 Vermont Code - § 5142. — Restrictions as to minors and incompetent persons

§ 5142. Restrictions as to minors and incompetent persons

A clerk shall not issue a marriage license when either party to the intended marriage is:

(1) A person who has not attained his majority without the consent in writing of one of the parents if there is one competent to act; or the guardian of such minor;

(2) Nor with such consent when either party is under sixteen years of age unless furnished with a certificate of a probate, district or superior judge, of the district or county in which one of the applicants resides, if either applicant is a resident of the state, otherwise of the district or county in which the marriage is sought to be consummated, that the public good requires such license to be issued;

(3) Nor when either of the parties to the intended marriage is non compos mentis;

(4) Nor to a person under guardianship without the written consent of such guardian;

(5) Nor in any case when either party is under fourteen years of age. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, eff. Feb. 1, 1967; 1967, No. 147, § 47, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; 1971, No. 90, § 13; 1973, No. 201 (Adj. Sess.), § 11.)