PART II
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS (Chapters 183 through 210)
TITLE III
DOMESTIC RELATIONS
CHAPTER 207
MARRIAGE
Section 48
Solemnization of marriage without authority
Section 48. Whoever, not being duly authorized by the laws of the commonwealth, undertakes to join persons in marriage therein shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.