CHAPTER 362
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-28 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the authorization of ministers to perform marriage ceremonies, and
bond required.
[S 218]

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
tl That § 20-23 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 20-23. When a minister of any religious denomination shall produce
before the circuit court of any county or city or before the corporation
court of any city in this State, or before the judge of either of such courts
in vacation, 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
holds a local minister’s license and is serving as a regularly appointed pastor
in his denomination, such court, or the judge thereof in vacation, may make
an order authorizing such minister to celebrate the rites of matrimony in
this State, upon the execution by such minister of a bond in the penalty of
five hundred dollars, with surety, conditioned according to law, before either
of such courts, or before the judge of either of such courts in vacation, or
before the clerk of either of such courts. Any order made under this section
may be rescinded at any time by the court or by the judge thereof in
vacation.

2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.