Every person elected or appointed a member of the United States Senate or of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States shall take the oath of office prescribed by, and at the time and in the manner provided by, the laws of the United States of America, effective at the time […]
Every person elected or appointed a member of the Senate, or a member of the House of Delegates, in the Legislature of this state, shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed by, and in the manner specified in, section 16 of article VI of the […]
Except as provided in sections one and two of this article, every person elected or appointed to any office in this state, before proceeding to exercise the authority or discharge the duties of such office, shall take the oath or affirmation prescribed in section 5 of article IV of the Constitution of this state; but […]
Any oath of office may be taken in this state before any court of record or before any person having at the time authority to administer oaths. Any person residing out of this state, who shall be appointed to any office, agency or service to be performed out of this state, may take the oath […]
The oaths required by section three of this article shall be taken after the person shall have been elected or appointed to the office, and before the date of the beginning of the term, if a regular term; but if to fill a vacancy, within ten days from the date of the election or appointment, […]
Certificates of the oaths of all magisterial district and county officers, and judges of courts of limited jurisdiction within any county, shall be filed, recorded and preserved in the office of the clerk of the county court of the county. Certificates of the oaths of members of boards of education and school officers of any […]
No person elected or appointed to any office, civil or military, shall enter into the office, exercise any of the authority or discharge any of the duties pertaining thereto, or receive any compensation therefor, before taking the oath of office: Provided, That this section shall not apply to members of the Legislature of this state.
The clerk of the county court of each county, within thirty days after the qualification of officers chosen at each general election in his county, shall transmit to the Secretary of State a certified list of all county officers, showing the name of the officer and the title of the office.
