Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 26 Domestic Relations - Chapter 26.04 Marriage

26.04.010 Marriage contract -- Void marriages
(1) Marriage is a civil contract between a male and a female who have each attained the age of eighteen years, and who are otherwise ...

26.04.020 Prohibited marriages
(1) Marriages in the following cases are prohibited: (a) When either party thereto has a wife or husband living at the time of such marriage; ...

26.04.050 Who may solemnize
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 ...

26.04.060 Marriage before unauthorized cleric -- Effect
A marriage solemnized before any person professing to be a minister or a priest of any religious denomination in this state or professing to be ...

26.04.070 Form of solemnization
In the solemnization of marriage no particular form is required, except that the parties thereto shall assent or declare in the presence of the minister, ...

26.04.080 Marriage certificate -- Contents
The person solemnizing a marriage shall give to each of the parties thereto, if required, a certificate thereof, specifying therein the names and residence of ...

26.04.090 Certificate for files of county auditor and state registrar of vital statistics -- Forms
A person solemnizing a marriage shall, within thirty days thereafter, make and deliver to the county auditor of the county wherein the license was issued ...

26.04.100 Filing and recording -- County auditor
The county auditor shall file said certificates and record them or bind them into numbered volumes, and note on the original index to the license ...

26.04.105 Preservation of copies of applications and licenses -- County auditor
The county auditor may preserve copies of marriage license applications submitted and marriage licenses issued under this chapter in the same manner as authorized for ...

26.04.110 Penalty for failure to deliver certificates
Any person solemnizing a marriage, who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to make and deliver to the county auditor for record, the certificates mentioned in ...

26.04.120 Marriage according to religious ritual
All marriages to which there are no legal impediments, solemnized before or in any religious organization or congregation, according to the established ritual or form ...

26.04.130 Voidable marriages
When either party to a marriage shall be incapable of consenting thereto, for want of legal age or a sufficient understanding, or when the consent ...

26.04.140 Marriage license
Before any persons can be joined in marriage, they shall procure a license from a county auditor, as provided in RCW 26.04.150 through 26.04.190.[1985 c ...

26.04.150 Application for license -- May be secured by mail -- Execution and acknowledgment
Any person may secure by mail from the county auditor of the county in the state of Washington where he intends to be married, an ...

26.04.160 Application for license -- Contents -- Oath
(1) Application for a marriage license must be made and filed with the appropriate county auditor upon blanks to be provided by the county auditor ...

26.04.165 Additional marriage certificate form
In addition to the application provided for in RCW 26.04.160, the county auditor for the county wherein the license is issued shall submit to each ...

26.04.170 Inspection of applications
Any such application shall be open to public inspection as a part of the records of the office of such county auditor.[1985 c 82 § ...

26.04.175 When disclosure of marriage applications and records prohibited
If a program participant under chapter 40.24 RCW notifies the appropriate county auditor as required under rules adopted by the secretary of state, the county ...

26.04.180 License -- Time limitations as to issuance and use -- Notification
The county auditor may issue the marriage license at the time of application, but shall issue such license no later than the third full day ...

26.04.190 Refusal of license -- Appeal
Any county auditor is hereby authorized to refuse to issue a license to marry if, in his discretion, the applications executed by the parties or ...

26.04.200 Penalty for violations -- 1939 c 204
Any person intentionally violating any provision of RCW 26.04.140 through 26.04.190 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.[1939 c 204 § 8; RRS § 8450-7.]Notes: Punishment ...

26.04.210 Affidavits required for issuance of license -- Penalties
(1) 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 ...

26.04.220 Retention of license by person solemnizing -- Auditor's record
The person solemnizing the marriage is authorized to retain in his possession the license, but the county auditor who issues the same, before delivering it, ...

26.04.240 Penalty for unlawful solemnization -- Code 1881
Any person who shall undertake to join others in marriage knowing that he is not lawfully authorized so to do, or any person authorized to ...

26.04.250 Penalty for unlawful solemnization -- 1909 c 249
Every person who shall solemnize a marriage when either party thereto is known to him to be under the age of legal consent or a ...