N.Y. Domestic Relations Law Section 13-B
Time within which marriage may be solemnized

A marriage shall not be solemnized within twenty-four hours after the issuance of the marriage license, unless authorized by an order of a court of record as hereinafter provided, nor shall it be solemnized after sixty days from the date of the issuance of the marriage license unless authorized pursuant to section ten of the veterans’ services law. Every license to marry hereafter issued by a town or city clerk, in addition to other requirements specified by this chapter, must contain a statement of the day and the hour the license is issued and the period during which the marriage may be solemnized. It shall be the duty of the clergyman, magistrate, or one-day marriage officiant, as designated by a town or city clerk pursuant to § 11-D (One-day marriage officiant license)section eleven-d of this article, performing the marriage ceremony, or if the marriage is solemnized by written contract, of the judge before whom the contract is acknowledged, to annex to or endorse upon the marriage license the date and hour the marriage is solemnized. A judge or justice of the supreme court of this state or the county judge of the county in which either party to be married resides, or the judge of the family court of such county, if it shall appear from an examination of the license and any other proofs submitted by the parties that one of the parties is in danger of imminent death, or by reason of other emergency public interest will be promoted thereby, or that such delay will work irreparable injury or great hardship upon the contracting parties, or one of them, may, make an order authorizing the immediate solemnization of the marriage and upon filing such order with the clergyman, magistrate, or one-day marriage officiant performing the marriage ceremony, or if the marriage is to be solemnized by written contract, with the judge before whom the contract is acknowledged, such clergyman, magistrate or such one-day marriage officiant may solemnize such marriage, or such judge may take such acknowledgment as the case may be, without waiting for such three day period and twenty-four hour period to elapse. The clergyman, magistrate, judge, or such one-day marriage officiant, as designated by a town or city clerk pursuant to § 11-D (One-day marriage officiant license)section eleven-d of this article, must file such order with the town or city clerk who issued the license within five days after the marriage is solemnized. Such town or city clerk must record and index the order in the book required to be kept by him or her for recording affidavits, statements, consents and licenses, and when so recorded the order shall become a public record and available in any prosecution under this section. A person who shall solemnize a marriage in violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each offense, and in addition thereto, his or her right to solemnize a marriage shall be suspended for ninety days.

Source: Section 13-B — Time within which marriage may be solemnized, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/DOM/13-B (updated Apr. 7, 2023; accessed Nov. 1, 2025).

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Marriage a civil contract 10–A
Parties to a marriage 10–B
Religious exception 11
By whom a marriage must be solemnized 11–A
Duty of city clerk in certain cities of the first class 11–B
Registration of persons performing marriage ceremonies in the city of New York 11–C
Marriage officers 11–D
One-day marriage officiant license 12
Marriage, how solemnized 13
Marriage licenses 13–AA
Test to determine the presence of sickle cell anemia 13–B
Time within which marriage may be solemnized 13–C
Twenty-four hour provision waived in certain cases 13–D
Duty of clerk issuing marriage license 14
Town and city clerks to issue marriage licenses 14–A
Town and city clerks to issue certificates of marriage registration 15
Duty of town and city clerks 15–A
Marriages of minors under eighteen years of age 15–B
Temporary provisions authorizing issuance of marriage license, upon court order, without consent of a parent in armed forces of United St... 16
False statements and affidavits 17
Clergyman or officer violating article 18
Clergymen or officer, when protected 19
Records to be kept by town and city clerks 19–A
Marriages on vessels 20
Records to be kept by the state department of health and the city clerk of the city of New York 20–A
Certified transcripts of records 20–B
Certification of marriage 20–C
Certification of marriage 21
Forms and books to be furnished 22
Penalty for violation 23
Supervision of and inspection of town and city clerks’ records by state commissioner of health 24
Effect of marriage on legitimacy of children 25
License, when to be obtained
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Verified:
Nov. 1, 2025

Last modified:
Apr. 7, 2023

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