Chapter 115
2009 -- H 5323
Enacted 07/16/09
A N A C T
RELATING TO
PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES - APPOINTMENT,
QUALIFICATION
AND TENURE OF OFFICERS
Introduced By: Representative Peter F. Kilmartin
Date Introduced: February 05, 2009
It is enacted by the
General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 36-1-2 and 36-1-3 of the General Laws in
Chapter 36-1 entitled
"Appointment,
Qualification, and Tenure of Officers" are hereby amended to read as
follows:
36-1-2.
Engagement of office. -- Every person, except the
justices of the supreme and
superior courts, elected to office by the general assembly, or
by either house thereof, or under the
provisions of the law in relation to public schools, or
appointed to office, civil or military, by the
governor, or by any other appointing authority, to a state
board, agency or commission, shall,
before he or she shall act therein, take the following
engagement before some person authorized
to administer oaths, namely: I, [naming the person] do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of
[naming the office]according to the
best of my abilities, and that I will support the
Constitution and laws of this state, and the
Constitution of the
peril of the penalty of perjury.]
36-1-3.
Issuance of commissions. -- A commission shall
issue to every person elected to
office by the general assembly, to every justice of the
peace elected by any town council, to the
clerk and each deputy clerk of the
office by the governor and to every person appointed to a
state board, agency, or commission by
any appointing authority.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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