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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of |
| 5 | | Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 203 as follows:
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| 6 | | (750 ILCS 5/203) (from Ch. 40, par. 203) |
| 7 | | Sec. 203. License to Marry. When a marriage application |
| 8 | | has been completed and signed by both parties to a prospective |
| 9 | | marriage and both parties have appeared before the county |
| 10 | | clerk and the marriage license fee has been paid, the county |
| 11 | | clerk shall issue a license to marry and a marriage |
| 12 | | certificate form upon being furnished: |
| 13 | | (1) satisfactory proof that each party to the marriage |
| 14 | | will have attained the age of 18 years at the time the |
| 15 | | marriage license is effective or will have attained the |
| 16 | | age of 16 years and has either the consent to the marriage |
| 17 | | of both parents or his guardian or judicial approval; |
| 18 | | provided, if one parent cannot be located in order to |
| 19 | | obtain such consent and diligent efforts have been made to |
| 20 | | locate that parent by the consenting parent, then the |
| 21 | | consent of one parent plus a signed affidavit by the |
| 22 | | consenting parent which (i) names the absent parent and |
| 23 | | states that he or she cannot be located, and (ii) states |
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| 1 | | what diligent efforts have been made to locate the absent |
| 2 | | parent, shall have the effect of both parents' consent for |
| 3 | | purposes of this Section; |
| 4 | | (2) satisfactory proof that the marriage is not |
| 5 | | prohibited; and |
| 6 | | (3) an affidavit or record as prescribed in |
| 7 | | subparagraph (1) of Section 205 or a court order as |
| 8 | | prescribed in subparagraph (2) of Section 205, if |
| 9 | | applicable. |
| 10 | | With each marriage license, the county clerk shall provide |
| 11 | | a pamphlet describing the causes and effects of fetal alcohol |
| 12 | | syndrome. At least annually, the county board shall submit to |
| 13 | | the Illinois Department of Public Health a report as to the |
| 14 | | county clerk's compliance with the requirement that the county |
| 15 | | clerk provide a pamphlet with each marriage license. All |
| 16 | | funding and production costs for the aforementioned |
| 17 | | educational pamphlets for distribution to each county clerk |
| 18 | | shall be provided by non-profit, non-sectarian statewide |
| 19 | | programs that provide education, advocacy, support, and |
| 20 | | prevention services pertaining to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. |
| 21 | | County clerks must establish a process within 6 months or |
| 22 | | sooner after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the |
| 23 | | 104th General Assembly to allow a party or parties who cannot |
| 24 | | travel or have difficulty traveling because of a disability, |
| 25 | | physical impairment, or health condition that impedes the |
| 26 | | mobility of the party or parties to appear using an electronic |