(20 ILCS 1805/82) (from Ch. 129, par. 220.82)
Sec. 82. Judge advocates of general and special courts-martial and summary court officers are empowered to administer oaths to witnesses before such courts and to take such depositions as may be required for use in military trials. Such officers and all adjutants are empowered to take acknowledgments and oaths to affidavits pertaining to the loss or damage to property, to applications for discharge, and in general to any military documents or business which would otherwise require the action of a civil officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments. Such oaths, affidavits and acknowledgments shall have the same legal force and effect as if taken by a civil officer now authorized by law to take acknowledgments. Depositions of witnesses residing outside the State of Illinois may be taken before any civil officer authorized by law to take the same, upon reasonable notice given. Such depositions may be either upon oral or written interrogatories.
Oaths of office to any military in the service of this State may be administered by any commissioned officer thereof.
The presiding officer, or recorder, of any military board duly appointed to conduct any investigation or inquiry, or an officer detailed for such purpose may likewise administer oaths to any witness attending to testify in such investigation or inquiry.
(Source: P.A. 85-1241.)
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