O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 45-3-15 (2019)

Proceeding for false swearing when loyalty oath violated

✓ 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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If any person required to do so by Code Sections 45-3-11 through 45-3-14 and this Code section executes a loyalty oath and subsequently it is proved that said individual has violated the oath, then the governing authority shall institute proceedings in the proper court against such person for false swearing.

History

(Ga. L. 1949, p. 960, § 6; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 45.)

Annotations

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).

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