Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to immediately authorize the solemnization of a certain marriage, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-nine of chapter two hundred and seven of the General Laws, the state secretary may authorize in the manner set forth under said section thirty-nine, the solemnization of a marriage by Joan M. Menard, as she is a state representative from the fifth Bristol district in the city of Fall River on July fourteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, between Betty-Ann Costa of the town of Swansea and James P. Mullins of the town of Somerset and the state secretary shall issue to said Joan M. Menard in her capacity as aforesaid, a certificate of such authorization.