GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 147
HOUSE BILL 82

AN ACT TO ALLOW MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHAIRS OF COUNTY BOARDS OF COMMISSIONERS TO ADMINISTER OATHS OF OFFICE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 11-7.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 11-7.1.  Who may administer oaths of office.
(a)	Except as otherwise specifically required by statute, an oath of office may be administered by:
(1)	A justice, judge, magistrate, clerk, assistant clerk, or deputy clerk of the General Court of Justice, a retired justice or judge of the General Court of Justice, or any member of the federal judiciary;
(2)	The Secretary of State;
(3)	A notary public;
(4)	A register of deeds;
(5)	A mayor of any city, town, or incorporated village;
(5a)	A chairman of the board of commissioners of any county;
(6)	A member of the House of Representatives or Senate of the General Assembly;
(7)	The clerk of any county, city, town or incorporated village."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective with respect to oaths of office administered on or after December 1, 1995.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of June, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives