451.130. Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.

Penalty for failure to issue, record or return license.

451.130. 1. If any recorder willfully neglect or refuse to issue alicense to any person legally entitled thereto on application, on paymentor tender of the fee provided for in section 451.150, or shall fail torefuse to record such license, with the return thereon, as herein provided,he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall befined in any sum not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.

2. Every officer or person who shall fail to return a license withinfifteen days after the issuing of the same, or who shall make a falsereturn thereon, or any recorder who shall willfully make a false record ofany marriage license or return thereon, shall be deemed guilty of amisdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided inthe preceding part of this section.

(RSMo 1939 § 3367, A.L. 2001 H.B. 157)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2980; 1919 § 7305; 1909 § 8286