N.Y. Domestic Relations Law § 13-b: Time within which marriage may be solemnized

§ 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 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

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.