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2018 Georgia Code 45-3-13 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 45 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

Section 3. Official Oaths and Commissions, 45-3-1 through 45-3-31.

ARTICLE 1 OFFICIAL OATHS

45-3-13. Loyalty oath - Form.

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."

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

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, deleted "and that I am not a member of the Communist Party" following "the Constitution of Georgia" at the end of this Code section.

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 A.L.R.2d 268.

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