§ 10 — Official oaths

New York § 10

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law PBO: Public Officers
• Art. 2: Appointment and Qualification of Public Officers

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§ 10. Official oaths. Every officer shall take and file the oath of\noffice required by law, and every judicial officer of the unified court\nsystem, in addition, shall file a copy of said oath in the office of\ncourt administration, before he shall be entitled to enter upon the\ndischarge of any of his official duties. An oath of office may be\nadministered by a judge of the court of appeals, the attorney general,\nor by any officer authorized to take, within the state, the\nacknowledgment of the execution of a deed of real property, or by an\nofficer in whose office the oath is required to be filed or by his duly\ndesignated assistant, or may be administered to any member of a body of\nofficers, by a presiding officer or clerk, thereof, who shall have taken\nan oath of office. An oath of office may be administered to any state or\nlocal officer who is a member of the armed forces of the United States\nby any commissioned officer, in active service, of the armed forces of\nthe United States. In addition to the requirements of any other law, the\ncertificate of the officer in the armed forces administering the oath of\noffice under this section shall state (a) the rank of the officer\nadministering the oath, and (b) that the person taking the oath was at\nthe time, enlisted, inducted, ordered or commissioned in or serving\nwith, attached to or accompanying the armed forces of the United States.\nThe fact that the officer administering the oath was at the time duly\ncommissioned and in active service with the armed forces, shall be\ncertified by the secretary of the army, secretary of the air force or by\nthe secretary of the navy, as the case may be, of the United States, or\nby a person designated by him to make such certifications, but the place\nwhere such oath was administered need not be disclosed. The oath of\noffice of a notary public or commissioner of deeds shall be filed in the\noffice of the clerk of the county in which he shall reside. The oath of\noffice of every state officer shall be filed in the office of the\nsecretary of state; of every officer of a municipal corporation,\nincluding a school district, with the clerk thereof; and of every other\nofficer, including the trustees and officers of a public library and the\nofficers of boards of cooperative educational services, in the office of\nthe clerk of the county in which he shall reside, if no place be\notherwise provided by law for the filing thereof.\n