Volume 80 · 958
Public Law 89–682
To amend title 28, entitled “Judiciary and Judicial Procedure”, of the United States Code to provide for the reporting of congressional reference cases by commissioners of the United States Court of Claims.
Approved October 15, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 28, entitled “Judiciary and Judicial Procedure”, of the United States Code to provide for the reporting of congressional reference cases by commissioners of the United States Court of Claims.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all applications for marriage licenses shall be open to inspection as public records. All such applications upon which licenses have not yet been issued shall be kept together in a separate file readily accessible to public examination.
Sec. 2.
No application for a marriage license shall be received unless there shall be filed therewith a statement or statements, upon a form prescribed by the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, signed by (1) a person in the District of Columbia certified by the Department of Public Health as duly qualified to administer and interpret a standard laboratory blood test, (2) a physician licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the District of Columbia, a State, or a territory or possession of the United States, or (3) a commissioned medical officer in the military service or in Public Health Service of the United States, that the applicant has submitted to a standard laboratory blood test within thirty days prior to the filing of such application, and that, in the opinion of such certified person, physician, or medical officer, based upon the result of that test, the applicant is not infected with syphilis in a stage of that disease in which it can be transmitted to another person. Such statement shall not disclose the technical data upon which it is based. Any such statement shall include the name of the person or laboratory administering the test, the name of the test administered, the exact name of the applicant, and the date of the test.
Sec. 3.
If a judge of the United States District Court for the District
Waiver.
of Columbia determines that public policy or the physical condition of either of the persons applying for a marriage license requires the intended marriage to be celebrated without delay, he may waive the provisions of section 2 of this Act and section 2 of the Act of August 12, 1937 (D.C. Code, sec. 30–109), and a license may be issued without
regard to such sections.
Sec. 4.
In any case in which a person is unable for financial reasons
Financial disability provision.
to obtain the services of—
a private physician, or
any other person in the District of Columbia, certified by the Department of Public Health as duly qualified to administer and interpret a standard laboratory blood test,
to conduct such test or sign the statement required by section 2 of this Act, any medical officer of the Department of Public Health of the District of Columbia is authorized to conduct such test and provide such statement at no cost to such person.
Sec. 5.
Any information obtained from any laboratory blood test required under section 2 of this Act shall be regarded as confidential by each person, agency, or committee who obtains, transmits, or receives such information.
Sec. 6.
Whoever—
knowingly divulges, other than in accordance with the provisions of this Act, any information, derived from the laboratory blood test required by section 2 of this Act, relating to any person suffering, or suspected to be suffering from, syphilis,
knowingly misrepresents any fact called for by the statement required by such section, or knowingly falsifies any material fact in connection with the laboratory blood test required by such section,
knowingly issues a marriage license without having received the statement required under such section or an order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued under section 3 of this Act, or
otherwise fails to comply with any other provision of this Act,
Penalty.
shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, or fined not more than $250, or both. Prosecutions for violations of this section shall be conducted by the Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia.
Sec. 7.
This Act shall take effect upon the expiration of ninety days after the date of its enactment.
Approved October 15, 1966.