Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§8746 Administration of oaths by clerks and employees
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 871— - CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES › § 8746
Summary
Certain chief clerks, inspectors, and other staff in Navy and Marine Corps offices that the Secretary of the Navy names may give oaths. They can swear people for claims or applications to the United States by Department officers and employees, and they can give oaths of office to those officers and employees. They must not be paid for giving these oaths.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8746
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(a)Chief clerks and inspectors attached to any office of inspector of naval material, chief clerks attached to the field service of the Department of the Navy, to naval shipyards and stations, and to Marine Corps posts and stations, and such other clerks and employees attached to those activities as the Secretary of the Navy designates, may administer—
(1)oaths required by law or regulation relating to claims against, or applications to, the United States of officers and of employees of the Department; and
(2)oaths of office to officers and employees of the Department.
(b)There may be no compensation for the administration of oaths under this section.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 747634 U.S.C. 217b.Apr. 25, 1935, ch. 83, 49 Stat. 162.
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 8746 was renumbered section 9276 of this title.
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7476 of this title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8746
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73