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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 20-1-340: Record of license and certificate kept by probate judge or clerk of court.

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  1. Title 20 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
  2. CHAPTER 1 Marriage
  3. ARTICLE 3 Marriage License

The probate judge or clerk of court who issued any such license shall, upon the return of the two copies to him by the person who performs the wedding ceremony, record and index such certificate in a book kept for that purpose and send one copy to the Division of Vital Statistics of the Department of Health and Environmental Control within fifteen days after the marriage license is returned to his offices. The judge of probate shall issue a certified copy of any such license and certificate to any person and he may charge the sum of fifty cents for so doing unless otherwise prohibited by law.

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