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1996 SESSION
963209316Patrons-- Katzen, Albo, Bryant, Dudley, Landes, Marshall, Nixon, Rollison, Wardrup and Weatherholtz
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 20-16 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 20-16. Oath of parties before clerk and issuance of certificates thereof.
The Before issuing a marriage license, the clerk
issuing any marriage license shall before issuing the license
require the parties contemplating marriage to state, under oath, or by
affidavit or affidavits filed with him, and made by the
parties for whom the application is made, before a person qualified
to take acknowledgments or administer oaths, the information required to
complete the marriage record. Such information shall include the social
security number of the parties. The clerk shall make two certificates
thereof and deliver them, together with the license, to the person entitled
thereto. For the purposes of this section any statement made by such applicant,
under oath, concerning the information to be entered on the record is hereby
declared to be a material matter or thing in any prosecution for perjury for
any violation of this section.