The Municipal Matrimony Bureau (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “Bureau” is:
a. authorized and empowered:
1. to charge and collect on behalf of the municipality, such service charges as hereinafter may be identified and authorized for the performance of marriage solemnization's to be paid by the parties desiring the service; and
2. to provide such materials and forms as may be desirable and proper to efficiently administer the purposes and objects of this ordinance including the development of a uniform application form to be used in support of the Municipal Matrimony Service, subject to applicable provisions of Indiana Code, § 36-5-6(2)(3) and Indiana Code, § 5-11-9-2;
b. instructed and directed:
1. to design and provide an application form to be used in support of the Municipal Matrimony Service which contains the same information called for and indicated in the most current versions of State Form 27553, known as the Record of Marriage, time, date, place of the wedding service, and such other information as may be reasonably related to the administration of this service; and
2. to develop, compile, and maintain records of the services offered, charges collected, and such other information as may be desirable and to transmit a report of the activities of the Bureau from time to time to the municipal legislative body.
(Ord. No. 1476, § 3, 12-8-99)