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2012 SESSION
12100309DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 20-23 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 20-23. Order authorizing ministers to perform ceremony.
When a minister of any religious denomination shall produce
before the circuit court of any county or city in this Commonwealth, or before
the judge of such court or before the clerk of such court at any time, proof of
his ordination and of his being in regular communion with the religious society
of which he is a reputed member, or proof that he is [ a
commissioned lay pastor commissioned to pastoral
ministry ] or holds a local minister's license and is
serving as a regularly appointed pastor in his denomination, such court, or the
judge thereof, or the clerk of such court at any time, may make an order
authorizing such minister to celebrate the rites of matrimony in this
Commonwealth. Any order made under this section may be rescinded at any time by
the court or by the judge thereof.