offices -- Common counseling board with adjacent county. (1) A county is authorized to: (a) provide for premarital counseling; and (b) require the use of premarital counseling as a condition precedent to the issuance of a marriage license under the provisions of this part. (2) The county may appoint a premarital counseling board consisting of seven members, four of whom shall be lay persons and three of whom shall be chosen from the professions of psychiatry, psychology, social work, marriage counseling, the clergy, law or medicine. (3) The county may designate the terms of office and the procedures to be followed by the premarital counseling board and provide for payment of compensation and expenses for members. (4) The county may pay the salaries and expenses of a counseling staff under the supervision of the premarital counseling board and provide office space, furnishings, equipment and supplies for the board's use. (5) A county may join with an adjacent county or counties in forming a common premarital counseling board and in establishing a common master plan for premarital counseling. Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 366, 2024 General Session
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