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A. All marriages must be contracted by a formal ceremony performed or solemnized in the presence of at least two adult, competent persons as witnesses, by a Judge or Justice of any Court of the Osage Nation, or an ordained or authorized preacher or minister of the Gospel, priest or other ecclesiastical dignitary of any denomination who has been duly ordained or authorized by the church to which he or she belongs to preach the Gospel, or a rabbi, and who is at least eighteen (18) years of age.

B. Filing of credentials by persons performing marriage ceremonies.

1. A Judge or Justice shall place his or her order of appointment or election on file with the office of the Court Clerk. Eligibility under this Act shall be in effect only for the time period of such appointment or election.

2. A preacher, minister, priest, rabbi, or ecclesiastical dignitary shall have filed, in the office of the Court Clerk, a copy of the credentials or authority from his or her church or synagogue authorizing him or her to solemnize marriages.

3. The filing by Judges, Justices, preachers, ministers, priests, rabbis or ecclesiastical dignitaries shall be effective in and for all area of jurisdiction of the Osage Nation and no fee shall be charged for such filing.

C. No person herein authorized to perform or solemnize a marriage ceremony shall do so unless the license issued therefor be first delivered into his or her possession nor unless he or she has good reason to believe the persons presenting themselves before him or her for marriage are the identical persons named in the license, and for whose marriage the same was issued, and that there is no legal objection or impediment to such marriage.

D. Marriages between persons belonging to the Society called Friends, or Quakers, the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which have no ordained minister, may be solemnized by the persons and in the manner prescribed by and practiced in any such society, church, or assembly. ONCA 12-53, eff. Apr. 19, 2012.