And Duties as Otherwise Assigned

Marriage over the manhole.

Maybe they both work for the city's public utility dept?

It goes without saying (or does it really?) that local officials, particularly in small towns, wear many hats. They are the proverbial Jacks/Jills of all trades. In baseball vernacular, they are the utility players. We get several calls weekly from these local officials seeking input on random topics. For example, this week a small town mayor called asking if we had some language he could use in a marriage he's been asked to perform next week. He'd never performed a marriage and was concerned that he'd say the wrong things and the marriage wouldn't be valid. Well, we don't get many (or any) marriage related queries and had nothing for him. But that didn't stop us from trying. So we called a mayor we suspected might just be good at marrying folk and sure enough, he had a ceremony he was willing to share and now so does the small town mayor somewhere out there in Utah.