1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to marriage; authorizing a judge from the Office of Administrative 
1.3 	Hearings to perform marriages;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 
1.4 	517.04.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 517.04, is amended to read:
1.7 	517.04 PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM MARRIAGES.
1.8 	Marriages may be solemnized throughout the state by an individual who has attained 
1.9 	the age of 21 years and is a judge of a court of record, a retired judge of a court of record, 
1.10 	a court administrator, a retired court administrator with the approval of the chief judge of 
1.11 	the judicial district, a former court commissioner who is employed by the court system or 
1.12 	is acting pursuant to an order of the chief judge of the commissioner's judicial district, the 
1.13 	residential school administrators of the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and the 
1.14 	Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, a licensed or ordained minister of any religious 
1.15 	denomination, or by any mode recognized in section 517.18. For purposes of this section, 
1.16 	a court of record includes the Office of Administrative Hearings under section 14.48.