N.Y. Dom. Rel. Law § 13-b

§ 13-b. Time within which marriage may be solemnized. A marriage shall\nnot be solemnized within twenty-four hours after the issuance of the\nmarriage license, unless authorized by an order of a court of record as\nhereinafter provided, nor shall it be solemnized after sixty days from\nthe date of the issuance of the marriage license unless authorized\npursuant to section three hundred fifty-four-d of the executive law.\nEvery license to marry hereafter issued by a town or city clerk, in\naddition to other requirements specified by this chapter, must contain a\nstatement of the day and the hour the license is issued and the period\nduring which the marriage may be solemnized. It shall be the duty of the\nclergyman or magistrate performing the marriage ceremony, or if the\nmarriage is solemnized by written contract, of the judge before whom the\ncontract is acknowledged, to annex to or endorse upon the marriage\nlicense the date and hour the marriage is solemnized. A judge or justice\nof the supreme court of this state or the county judge of the county in\nwhich either party to be married resides, or if such party is under\nsixteen years of age, the judge of the family court of such county, if\nit shall appear from an examination of the license and any other proofs\nsubmitted by the parties that one of the parties is in danger of\nimminent death, or by reason of other emergency public interest will be\npromoted thereby, or that such delay will work irreparable injury or\ngreat hardship upon the contracting parties, or one of them, may make an\norder authorizing the immediate solemnization of the marriage and upon\nfiling such order with the clergyman or magistrate performing the\nmarriage ceremony, or if the marriage is to be solemnized by written\ncontract, with the judge before whom the contract is acknowledged, such\nclergyman or magistrate may solemnize such marriage, or such judge may\ntake such acknowledgment as the case may be, without waiting for such\nthree day period and twenty-four hour period to elapse. The clergyman,\nmagistrate or judge must file such order with the town or city clerk who\nissued the license within five days after the marriage is solemnized.\nSuch town or city clerk must record and index the order in the book\nrequired to be kept by him for recording affidavits, statements,\nconsents and licenses, and when so recorded the order shall become a\npublic record and available in any prosecution under this section. A\nperson who shall solemnize a marriage in violation of this section shall\nbe guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished\nby a fine of fifty dollars for each offense, and in addition thereto,\nhis right to solemnize a marriage shall be suspended for ninety days.\n