Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

In reckoning the time of the terms of appointees to all offices, the terms of which are limited to two (2) years and are filled exclusively by executive appointment, reference shall be had to the beginning of the term of the executive making the appointment. Regardless of the tim…

The following officers are commissioned, namely: senators and representatives in congress, judges of the several courts, the district attorney general of each district, judges of courts of general sessions and notaries public, and the executive officers of the state, except the g…

(a) In all cases in which it is not otherwise provided by law, the oaths of office may be administered by any officer authorized to administer an oath. Such oaths shall be written out and subscribed by the person taking them, and shall be accompanied with the certificate of the o…

Such oaths shall, when taken by the governor, a judge of the supreme court, a judge of the circuit court, a chancellor, the secretary of state, the comptroller of the treasury, the state treasurer, a district attorney general, or any other officer whose duties are not limited to …

(a) Judges of courts of general sessions, sheriffs, constables, and other officers whose general duties are confined to a single county, as well as retired supreme court justices and retired inferior court or general sessions judges, shall, unless it is otherwise provided, file s…

The officer in whose office these oaths are required to be filed shall endorse thereon the day and year in which they were filed and sign the endorsement.

The official oath, unless otherwise expressly prescribed by law, shall be in the following form: “I do solemnly swear that I will perform with fidelity the duties of the office to which I have been appointed (or elected, as the case may be), and which I am about to assume.”

Whenever any officer is authorized or required to appoint a deputy, such deputy, before proceeding to act, shall take the constitutional oaths and oath of office, which shall be accompanied by the same certificate, filed in the same office, and with the same endorsement, as the o…

Any officer or deputy required by law to take and file such oaths, who enters upon the duties of the office without first taking and filing the same as prescribed, commits a Class C misdemeanor.

Sections 8-18-107 – 8-18-113 apply to the oaths of office of all public officers of this state whose office may be established hereafter, unless the contrary be expressly provided.