2011 Washington Code
Title 26 Domestic relations
26.04 Marriage.
26.04.250 Penalty for unlawful solemnization -- 1909 c 249.
*** CHANGE IN 2011 *** (SEE 5045.SL) ***
Every person who shall solemnize a marriage when either party thereto is known to him to be under the age of legal consent or a marriage to which, within his knowledge, any legal impediment exists, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[1979 ex.s. c 128 § 3; 1909 c 249 § 419; RRS § 2671. Formerly RCW 26.04.240, part.]
Notes:
Punishment of gross misdemeanor when not fixed by statute: RCW 9.92.020.
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