[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2193

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 20, 1996

 

 

By Assemblywoman CRECCO, Assemblymen FELICE, Garrett, Bucco, Kavanaugh, Barnes, Rooney, Assemblywomen Farragher, Bark, Assemblymen Bodine, Gibson, Assemblywoman Heck, Assemblymen Holzapfel, Moran, Assemblywoman J. Smith, Assemblyman Carroll, Assemblywoman Myers, Assemblymen Steele, Kelly, O'Toole, Blee, DiGaetano, Rocco, Arnone, Gregg, Asselta and Corodemus

 

 

An Act prohibiting same sex marriages and amending R.S.37:1-1 and supplementing Title 37 of the Revised Statutes.

 

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

    1. R.S.37:1-1 is amended to read as follows:

    A man shall not marry any of his ancestors or descendants, or his sister, or the daughter of his brother or sister, or the sister of his father or mother, whether such collateral kindred be of the whole or half blood. A woman shall not marry any of her ancestors or descendants, or her brother, or the son of her brother or sister, or the brother of her father or mother, whether such collateral kindred be of the whole or half blood. Persons of the same sex shall not marry. A marriage in violation of any of the foregoing provisions shall be absolutely void.

(cf: R.S.37:1-1)

 

    2. (New section) A marriage solemnized in any other 1[county] country1, state or territory, if valid where solemnized, is valid here unless it is a marriage that would be prohibited and declared void in this State pursuant to R.S.37:1-1 or R.S.37:1-10.

 

    1[3. (New section) Marriage between persons of the same sex is against the public policy of the State of New Jersey.]1

    1[4.] 3.1 This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

                             

Includes same sex marriages among marriages declared void; provides that New Jersey will not recognize marriages in other jurisdictions which are void in New Jersey.