Section 19-3-48 - Penalty for officiating at illegal marriage ceremony

If the Governor or any former Governor of this state, any judge, city recorder, magistrate, minister, or other person authorized to perform the marriage ceremony joins together in matrimony any man and woman without a license or the publication of banns or if the person performing the marriage ceremony knows of any disability of either of the parties which would render a contract of marriage improper and illegal, that person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.Amended by 2010 Ga. Laws 439,§ 5, eff. 7/1/2010.