North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 11 Oaths

Article 1 - General Provisions.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-1.   Oaths and affirmations to be administered with solemnity
  Whereas, lawful oaths for discovery of truth and establishing right are necessary and highly conducive to the important end of good government; and being...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-2.   Administration of oaths
  Judges and other persons who may be empowered to administer oaths, shall (except in the cases in this Chapter excepted) require the party to...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-3.   Administration of oath with uplifted hand
  When the person to be sworn shall be conscientiously scrupulous of taking a book oath in manner aforesaid, he shall be excused from laying...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-4.   Affirmation in lieu of oath
  When a person to be sworn shall have conscientious scruples against taking an oath in the manner prescribed by G.S. 11-2, 11-3, or 11-7,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-5.   Oaths of corporations
  In all cases where a corporation is appointed administrator, executor, collector, or to any other fiduciary position, of which fiduciary an oath is required...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-6.   Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 756, s. 4
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-7.   Oath or affirmation to support Constitutions; all officers to take
  Every member of the General Assembly and every person elected or appointed to hold any office of trust or profit in the State shall,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 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,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-8.   When deputies may administer
  In all cases where any civil officer, in the discharge of his duties, is permitted by the law to administer an oath, the deputy...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-9.   Administration by certain officers
  The chairman of the board of county commissioners and the chairman of the board of education of the several counties may administer oaths in...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-10.   When county surveyors may administer oaths
  The county surveyors of the several counties are empowered to administer oaths to all such persons as are required by law to be sworn...

Article 2 - Forms of Official and Other Oaths.

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 11-11.   Oaths of sundry persons; forms
  The oaths of office to be taken by the several persons hereafter named shall be in the words following the names of said persons...

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