Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30, § 11 (2026)

Oaths of office

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Section 11. A person chosen or appointed to an office may, unless otherwise provided by law, take and subscribe the oaths required to qualify him before the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of the commonwealth, two councillors or two commissioners appointed under section three of chapter two hundred and twenty-two.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1993–2015 · leading case: Noone v. Contributory Ret. Appeal Bd., 616 N.E.2d 126 (Mass. App. Ct. 1993).

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Noone v. Contributory Ret. Appeal Bd., 616 N.E.2d 126 (Mass. App. Ct. 1993). “4, 100-102 (1982) (G. L. c. 30, § 11 [8], is not satisfied where CRAB “adopted” the subsidiary findings of hearing officer but “made virtually no mention” of those findings in its decision).”

McCarthy v. The Governor, 27 N.E.3d 828 (Mass. 2015). “McCarthy’s unilateral act of reciting the oath of office before persons qualified to administer oaths (see G. L. c. 30, §11) did not transform the situation and somehow create a valid “appointment” where there was none.”

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