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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 8 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1958 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1968, chapter 318.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":55668,"section_number":"20-14","catch_line":"By whom license to be issued","order_by":null,"url":"\/20-14\/"}],"permalink":{"id":178193,"object_type":"law","relational_id":83362,"identifier":"20-14.1","token":"20\/2\/20-14.1","url":"\/20-14.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/20-14.1\/","token":"20\/2\/20-14.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Duration of license; issuance of additional licenses","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 20-14.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Every marriage license issued under \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"By whom license to be issued\" href=\"\/20-14\/\">20-14<\/a> shall constitute authority for a period of only sixty days from the date of issuance for the solemnization of a marriage of the licensees. Whenever such sixty-day period shall have elapsed without the solemnization of a marriage of the licensees, the license shall expire.\n\t\tThe provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent licensees from applying for or receiving an additional license, either before or after expiration of any license, but no new license shall be issued except in compliance with all provisions of <span class=\"dictionary\">law<\/span> applicable to the issuance of a license in the first instance.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDURATION OF LICENSE; ISSUANCE OF ADDITIONAL LICENSES (\u00a7 20-14.1)\n\nEvery marriage license issued under \u00a7 20-14 shall constitute authority for a\nperiod of only sixty days from the date of issuance for the solemnization of a\nmarriage of the licensees. Whenever such sixty-day period shall have elapsed\nwithout the solemnization of a marriage of the licensees, the license shall\nexpire.\n\t\tThe provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent licensees\nfrom applying for or receiving an additional license, either before or after\nexpiration of any license, but no new license shall be issued except in\ncompliance with all provisions of law applicable to the issuance of a license in\nthe first instance.\n\nHISTORY: 1958, c. 8; 1968, c. 318.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}