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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES · Chapter 3. OFFICIAL OATHS AND COMMISSIONS · Article 1. OFFICIAL OATHS

45-3-13. Loyalty oath — Form.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The oath prescribed in Code Section 45-3-11 shall be in the following form:

  2. ‘‘I, (Name) a citizen of and being an employee of and the recipient of public funds for services rendered as such employee, do hereby solemnly swear and affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Georgia.’’

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1949, p. 960, § 3; Ga. L. 1950, p. 282, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 5-4/HB 252.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 1-1/HB 252, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘J. Calvin Hill, Jr., Act.’’’

Law reviews

For comment on Baggett v. Bullitt, 377 U.S. 360, 84 S. Ct. 1316, 12 L. Ed. 2d 377 (1964), see 2 Ga. St. B.J. 123 (1965).

Other notes

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, deleted ‘‘and that I am not a member of the Communist Party’’ following ‘‘the Constitution of Georgia’’ at the end of this Code section.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t45-(v33)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volume V33, 2016 edition, page 51; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7dfce9a0fd88.