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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="2-504" title_number="2" title_name="Marriage" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Records">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On written request, made under penalty of perjury, of both parties to a marriage, the clerk for the county that issued the marriage license shall issue a new marriage record in accordance with this section if the clerk received satisfactory proof that a court of competent jurisdiction, regardless of location, has issued an order for a change of name for a party to the marriage.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On the presentation of a death certificate for a party to a marriage, the clerk for the county that issued the marriage license shall accept a request made under paragraph (1) of this subsection from the other party to the marriage.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>On the presentation of an order of the court instructing a marriage record to be changed, the clerk for the county that issued the marriage license shall accept a request under paragraph (1) of this subsection without a written request of both parties.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A new marriage record issued under this section shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>if the original marriage record designates the gender of the parties, including by using the terms “bride”, “groom”, “wife”, or “husband”, designate the parties using gender–neutral language; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if the name of a party to the marriage has been changed at any time, reflect the name that was most recently established and for which a certified order of change of name or other appropriate evidence has been submitted to the clerk.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A new marriage record issued under subsection (a) of this section may not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>be marked “amended”; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>show on its face that a change has been made to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a name of a party; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>if applicable, a gender designation.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a new marriage record is issued, the clerk shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>substitute the new electronic marriage record for the existing marriage record then on file; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>report and transmit a copy of the new marriage record to the Secretary of Health in accordance with § 2–503 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After a marriage record is changed under this section, any certified copy of the marriage record that is issued shall be a copy of the new marriage record, unless a court of competent jurisdiction orders the issuance of a copy of the original marriage record.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
