Volume 50
Public Law 75–596
To increase the age of consent for marriage in the District of Columbia to eighteen years of age in the case of males and sixteen years of age in the case of females.
Approved August 12, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To increase the age of consent for marriage in the District of Columbia to eighteen years of age in the case of males and sixteen years of age in the case of females.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph “Fourth” of section 1285 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
“Fourth.
When either of the parties is under the age of consent, which is hereby declared to be eighteen years of age for males and sixteen years of age for females.”
Sec. 2.
A license to marry shall not be issued until three days have elapsed from date of application for issuance of said license.
Sec. 3.
This Act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after the date of its enactment.
Approved, August 12, 1937.