Source: http://dccode.elaws.us/code?no=22-501
Timestamp: 2019-11-18 13:30:21
Document Index: 256348643

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 22', '§ 32', '§ 870', '§ 23', '§ 22', '§ 22']

§ 22-501. Bigamy.
(a) Whoever, having a spouse or domestic partner living, marries or enters a domestic partnership with another shall be deemed guilty of bigamy, and on conviction thereof shall suffer imprisonment for not less than 2 nor more than 7 years; provided, that this section shall not apply to any person whose:
(1) Spouse or domestic partner has been continually absent for 5 successive years next before such marriage or domestic partnership without being known to such person to be living within that time;
(2) Marriage to said living spouse shall have been dissolved by a valid decree of a competent court, or shall have been pronounced void by a valid decree of a competent court on the ground of the nullity of the marriage contract; or
(3) Domestic partnership with said living domestic partner has been terminated in accordance with § 32-702(d).
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1331, ch. 854, § 870; Sept. 12, 2008, D.C. Law 17- 231, § 23(a), 55 DCR 6758.)
1981 Ed., § 22-601.
1973 Ed., § 22-601.
D.C. Law 17-231 rewrote the section, which had read as follows:
"Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries another shall be deemed guilty of bigamy, and on conviction thereof shall suffer imprisonment for not less than 2 nor more than 7 years; provided, that this section shall not apply to any person whose husband or wife has been continually absent for 5 successive years next before such marriage without being known to such person to be living within that time, or whose marriage to said living husband or wife shall have been dissolved by a valid decree of a competent court, or shall have been pronounced void by a valid decree of a competent court on the ground of the nullity of the marriage contract."