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39A.210 Qualifications and oath of persons connected with disaster and
emergency response organizations.
No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any disaster and
emergency response organization established under this chapter who advocates a
change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the government of the
United States or in this state or the overthrow of any government in the United
States by force or violence, or who has been convicted of or is under indictment or
information charging any subversive act against the United States. Each person who
is appointed to serve in an organization for disaster and emergency response shall,
before entering upon his or her duties, take an oath, in writing, before a person
authorized to administer oaths in this Commonwealth, which shall be as follows:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United
States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth and be faithful and true to
the Commonwealth of Kentucky so long as I continue a citizen thereof, and that
I will faithfully execute, to the best of my ability, the office of emergency
management director according to law;
And I do further solemnly swear (or affirm) that since the adoption of the
present Constitution, I, being a citizen of this state, have not fought a duel with
deadly weapons within this state, nor out of it, nor have I sent or accepted a
challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, nor have I acted as second in
carrying a challenge, nor aided or assisted any person thus offended, so help
me God."
Effective:July 15, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 20, effective July 15, 1998.
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