Sec. 46b-38mm. Validity of civil union celebrated in foreign country.
Sec. 46b-38mm. Validity of civil union celebrated in foreign country. All civil
unions in which one or both parties are citizens of this state, celebrated in a foreign
country, shall be valid, provided: (1) Each party would have legal capacity to contract
such civil union in this state and the civil union is celebrated in conformity with the law
of that country; or (2) the civil union is celebrated in the presence of the ambassador or
minister to that country from the United States or in the presence of a consular officer
of the United States accredited to such country, at a place within his or her consular
jurisdiction, by any ordained or licensed member of the clergy engaged in the work of
the ministry in any state of the United States or in any foreign country.
(P.A. 05-10, S. 13.)