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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="2-501" title_number="2" title_name="Marriage" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Records">
  <text>Each clerk shall keep in the clerk’s office a marriage license book or electronic record, which shall contain:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>a complete record of each license issued;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>a complete record of all matters the clerk is required to ascertain that relate to the rights of an individual to obtain a license;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>in regular order, the items testified to by the applicants for a license as required under this title;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>properly indexed, the name of each individual who intends to be married; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>the date each certificate was filed and the name of the authorized official who performed the ceremony.</text>
  </level>
</section>
