[xzins]

That section includes ministers in sections (a) and (c). They can be licensed to solemnize marriages. We are not judges, justices of the peace. If I look through my files, I probably still have a license to solemnize in Kentucky that I gained while stationed there years ago with the Army, once at Ft Campbell, and once at Ft Knox.

I see wiggle room in .020(1)(c) in the word ‘contracted’.

We know who can ‘solemnize’. We know who can issue licenses. But I don’t recall seeing the word ‘contracted’ anyplace until this point.

What does that mean?

[Ray76]

"Contracted" does not refer to the authorized persons, it is the marriage that is "solemnized or contracted". Whether "solemnized" or "contracted", it must be "in the presence of an authorized person or society", which are:

• Justices and judges of the Court of Justice
• retired justices and judges of the Court of Justice except those removed for cause or convicted of a felony
• county judges/executive
• such justices of the peace and fiscal court commissioners as the Governor or the county judge/executive authorizes