2011 Vermont Code
Title 18 Health
Chapter 106 CIVIL UNION; RECORDS AND LICENSES
§ 5166 Certification by unauthorized person; penalty; validity of civil unions
§ 5166. Certification by unauthorized person; penalty; validity of civil unions
(a) An unauthorized person who knowingly undertakes to join others in a civil union shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than $300.00 nor less than $100.00, or both.
(b) A civil union certified before a person falsely professing to be a justice or a member of the clergy shall be valid, provided that the civil union is in other respects lawful, and that either of the parties to a civil union believed that he or she was lawfully joined in a civil union. (Added 1999, No. 91 (Adj. Sess.), { 5.)
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