HARRISBURG — Demand among same-sex couples for marriage licenses from an eastern Pennsylvania county official flouting state law shows no sign of slacking.

A Montgomery County spokesman said 16 same-sex couples were issued marriage licenses Monday, making it the highest single-day figure yet in the nearly two weeks since county officials began defying a state ban on such unions.

As of the close of business Tuesday, a total of 82 same-sex couples had received the licenses from Montgomery County, spokesman Frank Custer said. Of those, 22 have gotten married and filed certificates in the county’s Register of Wills office, Custer said Tuesday.

Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock told KDKA-TV he performed a Monday night marriage ceremony for two men who were issued a license by Montgomery County. Fetterman called the Pennsylvania law that effectively bans same-sex marriage “a fundamentally unjust piece of legislation.”

Meanwhile, the state Commonwealth Court said Tuesday it will schedule arguments after briefs are filed on the state Department of Health’s request to stop Montgomery County from issuing the licenses. The state must file its brief by Monday, and the county must file by Aug. 19.

A 1996 law defines marriage as a civil contract in which a man and a woman take each other as husband and wife, and it says same-sex marriages, even if entered legally elsewhere, are void in Pennsylvania.