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–674– -674§ 10. Marriages contracted outside Canal Zone Except as provided by section 73 of this title, marriages contracted outside the Canal Zone, which are valid under the laws of the country in which they were contracted, are valid in the Canal Zone. § 11. Offenses and penalties (a) "Whoever, being a judicial officer, minister qualified to celebrate marriages in the Canal Zone or a clerk of court, violates section 4, 5 or 6 of this title, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. (b) Whoever knowingly makes a false oath as to a material matter for the purpose of procuring or aiding another to procure a marriage license is guilty of perjury and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 10 years. (c) Whoever knowingly tiles with the clerk a written consent, any signature to which is a forgery, is guilty of uttering a forged instrument and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 14 years. (d) Whoever, not being qualified to celebrate marriages in the Canal Zone pursuant to this subchapter, celebrates what purports to be a marriage ceremony shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 3 years. Subchapter II—Pre-Marital Medical Examinations § 31. Medical examination required Each person making application for a marriage license shall, at any time within 15 days prior to the application, be examined by a physician authorized to practice medicine in the Canal Zone as to the existence, or nonexistence of any stage of syphilis infection that is or is likely to become communicable. § 32. Laboratory tests The medical examination required by section 31 of this title shall include a complete history, such physical examination as Avill reveal any existing clinical evidence of a syphilis infection, and a laboratory test or tests. Laboratory tests required by this subchapter shall be made by a laboratory approved by the health director of the Canal Zone Government. A laboratory test made by a government-operated hospital or clinic shall be made free of charge. Laboratory tests shall include a Kahn diagnostic test for syphilis, or other serological test for syphilis approved by the health director, or a Darkfield test for syphilis when moist lesions are present, or both tests. The medical certificate shall be made on a form prescribed by the health director. § 33. Procedure upon return of examination If, on the basis of laboratory tests, and the medical examination, the examining physician finds no evidence of a syphilis infection, he shall issue a medical certificate to that eflFect to the applicant, and if he finds evidence of a syphilis infection, a medical certificate shall be withheld until the applicant has undergone additional clinical examination and laboratory tests, by the same or another physician authorized to practice medicine in the Canal Zone, to determine the existence or nonexistence of a syphilis infection. If the existence of a syphilis infection is determined, the applicant innnediately becomes subject to regulations issued pursuant to section 911 of Title 2 to prevent persons having a syphilis infection in a communicable stage from transferring the infection to other persons, and a medical certificate shall be issued only when the regulations for prevention of the spread of syphilis have been fully complied with.

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