2010 Wyoming Statutes
Title 1 - Code Of Civil Procedure
Chapter 2 - Oaths

CHAPTER 2 - OATHS

 

1-2-101. Form.

 

A person may be sworn by any form he deems binding on his conscience.

 

1-2-102. Officers authorized to administer.

 

(a) The following officers are authorized to administer oaths:

 

(i) Justices of the Wyoming supreme court;

 

(ii) Judges of the Wyoming district courts;

 

(iii) Judge of the United States district court for the district of Wyoming;

 

(iv) Clerks of the Wyoming supreme court, Wyoming district courts and Wyoming county courts;

 

(v) Clerk of the United States district court for the district of Wyoming;

 

(vi) Commissioners and magistrates appointed by authority of the laws of the United States or of Wyoming;

 

(vii) Notaries public;

 

(viii) County clerks;

 

(ix) County treasurers;

 

(x) Clerks of school districts in Wyoming;

 

(xi) Clerks of any incorporated city or town in Wyoming;

 

(xii) County commissioners within their respective counties;

 

(xiii) Repealed by Laws 2009, Ch. 168, 202.

 

(xiv) Judges of the Wyoming county courts.

 

(b) Officers listed in this section are authorized to administer oaths, but are not authorized to perform other notarial acts as defined in W.S. 34-26-101(b)(iii), unless specified otherwise in W.S. 32-1-105(c) or 34-26-103(a).

 

1-2-103. Affirmation in lieu of oath; manner of administering.

 

Persons conscientiously opposed to swearing or to taking any oath may affirm, and are subject to the penalties of perjury as in the case of swearing an oath. Whenever any person is required to take an oath in any court, or before any person or officer authorized by law to administer oaths, it is lawful for the court, officer or person administering the same, to administer it in the following manner: the person taking the oath or swearing shall, with his or her right hand uplifted, swear or take the oath, concluding with the words "so help me God".

 

1-2-104. Certification of documents.

 

(a) A matter required or authorized to be supported, evidenced, established or proven by the sworn statement, declaration, verification, certificate, oath or affidavit, in writing of the person making it, other than a deposition, an acknowledgment, an oath of office or an oath required to be taken before a specified official other than a notary public, may be supported, evidenced, established or proven by the person certifying in writing "under penalty of false swearing" that the matter is true. The certification shall state the date and place of execution and the following:

 

"I certify under penalty of false swearing that the foregoing is true".

 

(b) A person who knowingly makes a false certification under subsection (a) of this section is guilty of false swearing in violation of W.S. 6-5-303(c).