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2025 Code of Virginia
Title 49 - Oaths, Affirmations and Bonds
Chapter 1 - Oaths and Affirmations
§ 49-4. Magistrates and other officers who may administer oaths and take affidavits
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Any oath or affidavit required by law, which is not of such nature that it must be made in court, may be administered by a magistrate, a notary, a commissioner in chancery, a commissioner appointed by the Governor, a judge or clerk or deputy clerk of a court, a commissioner or clerk or deputy clerk of the State Corporation Commission, or clerks of governing bodies of local governments. In case of a survey directed by a court in a cause therein pending, an oath or affidavit may be administered by or before the surveyor directed to execute the order of survey.
Code 1919, ยง 274; 1932, p. 339; 1968, c. 639; 1970, c. 783; 1986, c. 255.
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