O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-3-13 (2019)

Loyalty oath - Form

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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

History

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

Annotations

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).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS For constitutionality of this section prior to the 1981 recodification. - See Georgia Conference of Am. Ass’n of Univ.

Professors v. Board of Regents, 246 F. Supp. 553 (N.D. Ga. 1965).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Validity of governmental requirement of oath of allegiance or loyalty, 18 ALR2d 268.