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 the judge of the family\ncourt of such county, if it shall appear from an examination of the\nlicense and any other proofs submitted by the parties that one of the\nparties is in danger of imminent death, or by reason of other emergency\npublic interest will be promoted thereby, or that such delay will work\nirreparable injury or great hardship upon the contracting parties, or\none of them, may, make an order authorizing the immediate solemnization\nof the marriage and upon filing such order with the clergyman or\nmagistrate performing the marriage ceremony, or if the marriage is to be\nsolemnized by written contract, with the judge before whom the contract\nis acknowledged, such clergyman or magistrate may solemnize such\nmarriage, or such judge may take such acknowledgment as the case may be,\nwithout waiting for such three day period and twenty-four hour period to\nelapse. The clergyman, magistrate or judge must file such order with the\ntown or city clerk who issued the license within five days after the\nmarriage is solemnized. Such town or city clerk must record and index\nthe order in the book required to be kept by him or her for recording\naffidavits, statements, consents and licenses, and when so recorded the\norder shall become a public record and available in any prosecution\nunder this section. A person who shall solemnize a marriage in violation\nof this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction\nthereof shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each offense,\nand in addition thereto, his or her right to solemnize a marriage shall\nbe suspended for ninety days.\n