Unlawfully procuring a marriage license · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 255.10 Unlawfully procuring a marriage license.
A person is guilty of unlawfully procuring a marriage license when he procures a license to marry another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse.
Unlawfully procuring a marriage license is a class A misdemeanor.
Obtaining a license to marry while either person has a living spouse is unlawfully procuring a marriage license, a class A misdemeanor. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.