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2000 SESSION


CHAPTER 214
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-21 of the Code of Virginia, relating to list of licenses not returned by minister; when to prepare; failure to prepare.
[S 398]
Approved April 2, 2000

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 20-21 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 20-21. Clerk to furnish attorney for the Commonwealth list of licenses not returned by minister.

It shall be the duty of every clerk issuing marriage licenses on the first day of February no later than March 31 of each year to furnish to the attorney for the Commonwealth of his county or city a list of all marriage licenses issued for the during the preceding calendar year just preceding the first day of January last past that have not been returned by the minister or other person celebrating the marriage, and for failure to perform the duty required by this section the clerk shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine of twenty dollars.