Sec. 7-73. Fees of registrars. Marriage license surcharge.
Sec. 7-73. Fees of registrars. Marriage license surcharge. (a) To any person
performing the duties required by the provisions of the general statutes relating to registration of marriages, deaths and fetal deaths, the following fees shall be allowed: (1)
For the license to marry, ten dollars; and (2) for issuing each burial or removal, transit
and burial permit, three dollars.
(b) A twenty-dollar surcharge shall be paid to the registrar for each license to marry
in addition to the fee for such license established pursuant to subsection (a) of this
section. The registrar shall retain one dollar from each such surcharge for administrative
costs and shall forward the remainder, on or before the tenth day of the month following
each calendar quarter, to the Department of Public Health. The receipts shall be deposited
into an account of the State Treasurer and credited to the General Fund for further
credit to a separate nonlapsing account established by the Comptroller for use by the
Department of Social Services for shelter services for victims of household abuse in
accordance with section 17b-850 and by the Department of Public Health for rape crisis
services funded under section 19a-2a. Such funds shall be allocated for these purposes
by the Office of Policy and Management in consultation with the Commissioners of
Social Services and Public Health based on an evaluation of need, service delivery costs
and availability of other funds. No such moneys shall supplant any state or federal funds
otherwise available for such services.
(1949 Rev., S. 579, 3626; 1949, S. 1981d; 1963, P.A. 13; February, 1965, P.A. 145; 1971, P.A. 284, S. 1; P.A. 80-117,
S. 1, 3; P.A. 89-217, S. 2, 6; P.A. 92-203, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-11, S. 1, 2; 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 11, 39; P.A. 95-257,
S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 00-92, S. 4; P.A. 01-163, S. 25; P.A. 04-255, S. 12; P.A. 06-195, S. 1; P.A. 07-104, S. 4.)
History: 1963 act deleted provision for paying $0.25 to persons furnishing certificates required by sections 7-48 and
7-62; 1965 act raised fee for license to marry from $1 to $5 and deleted provisions regarding attaching affidavits to marriage
licenses; 1971 act increased fee for issuing burial or removal permit to $1 and deleted provisions re reports of foundling
children; P.A. 80-117 increased marriage license fee to$6 and burial or removal permit fee to $2; P.A. 89-217 changed
the fees as follows: From $0.25 to $2 for the recording, indexing, copying or endorsing of each birth, marriage or death
certificate, from $6 to $10 for a license to marry and from $2 to $3 for each burial or removal permit; P.A. 92-203 added
Subsec. (b) re marriage surcharge to fund shelters for victims of household abuse and rape crisis services; P.A. 93-11
amended Subsec. (b) to provide fees be sent to the department of health services instead of the state treasurer and to provide
for the deposit of funds into a separate account in the general fund, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution
of department of social services for department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner and department of health services with commissioner and department of public health and addiction services and
made technical changes, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and
Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995 (Revisor's note: The
words "the department of" were deleted editorially by the Revisors in Subsec. (b) references to Commissioner of Social
Services and Commissioner of Public Health for consistency with customary statutory usage); P.A. 00-92 amended Subsec.
(a) to delete $1 fee for ascertaining, recording and indexing each birth or death of which no certificate has been returned,
to delete $0.05 fee for certifying to each certificate returned by physicians, midwives and persons having charge of burial
places, to delete $0.10 fee for endorsing and recording each burial permit filed, to delete $0.50 fee for the sexton or other
person making returns required by section 7-72 and similar $0.25 fee for registrars, and to delete requirement that all such
fees, except those for certificates of license to marry and for removal permits, be paid by the town in which the duties for
which said fees are allowed are performed; P.A. 01-163 added provisions re fetal deaths in Subsec. (a) and made technical
changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b); P.A. 04-255 amended Subsec. (a) by changing "removal permit" to "burial transit removal
permit"; P.A. 06-195 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting former Subdiv. (1) re $2 fee for completing birth records and for
recording, indexing, copying and endorsing birth, marriage, death and fetal death certificates, making a conforming change
and redesignating existing Subdivs. (2) and (3) as Subdivs. (1) and (2), respectively; P.A. 07-104 amended Subsec. (a) by
substituting "removal, transit and burial permit" for "burial transit permit", effective July 1, 2007.