BILL REQ. #:  H-3893.1 

Read first time 01/14/2004.   Referred to Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Law.

     AN ACT Relating to solemnizing marriages; and amending RCW 26.04.050.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 26.04.050 and 1987 c 291 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     The following named officers and persons, active or retired, are hereby authorized to solemnize marriages, to wit: Justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals, judges of the superior courts, superior court commissioners, judges of courts of limited jurisdiction as defined in RCW 3.02.010, elected officials in the executive or legislative branch of state, county, or municipal government, and any regularly licensed or ordained minister or any priest of any church or religious denomination((, and judges of courts of limited jurisdiction as defined in RCW 3.02.010)).