MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2021 Regular Session
To: Judiciary B; Constitution
By: Representative Yates
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 93-1-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE PROVISIONS OF LAW THAT REGULATE MARRIAGE TO REMOVE THE PROHIBITION AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 93-1-1, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
93-1-1. * * * The son shall not marry his grandmother,
his mother, or his stepmother; the brother his sister; the father his daughter,
or his legally adopted daughter, or his grand-daughter; the son shall not marry
the daughter of his father begotten of his stepmother, or his aunt, being his
father's or mother's sister, nor shall the children of brother or sister, or
brothers and sisters intermarry being first cousins by blood. The father shall
not marry his son's widow; a man shall not marry his wife's daughter, or his
wife's daughter's daughter, or his wife's son's daughter, or the daughter of
his brother or sister; and the like prohibition shall extend to females in the same
degrees. All marriages prohibited by this subsection are incestuous and void.
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2021.