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                         SENATE BILL 5546

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senator Snyder

Read first time 01/26/95.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Revising the affidavits required for marriage licenses.

    AN ACT Relating to affidavits required for marriage licenses; and amending RCW 26.04.210.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 26.04.210 and 1985 c 82 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    The county auditor, before a marriage license is issued, upon the payment of a license fee as fixed in RCW 36.18.010 shall require each applicant therefor to make and file in ((his)) the auditor's office upon blanks to be provided by the county for that purpose, an affidavit showing that ((they are not)) if an applicant is afflicted with any contagious ((venereal disease)) sexually transmitted disease, the condition is known to both applicants, and that the applicants are the age of eighteen years or over((:  PROVIDED, FURTHER, That)).  If the consent in writing is obtained of the father, mother, or legal guardian of the person for whom the license is required, the license may be granted in cases where the female has attained the age of seventeen years or the male has attained the age of seventeen years.  Such affidavit may be subscribed and sworn to before any person authorized to administer oaths.  Anyone knowingly swearing falsely to any of the statements contained in the affidavits mentioned in this section shall be deemed guilty of perjury and punished as provided by the laws of the state of Washington.

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