Section 21.370

Title III LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

Chapter 21

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   

  21.370.  Oaths, by whom administered. — The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives may administer all oaths and affirmations to the officers of their respective houses, to swear in the members of their respective houses, after first having taken the oath of office prescribed by law themselves; and the president of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, the chairman of the committee of the whole, or the chairman of any standing, select or special committee of either house, may administer oaths and affirmations to witnesses in any case under their examination.

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(RSMo 1939 § 12890, A.L. 1957 p. 595)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 11265; 1919 § 7147; 1909 § 8143

CROSS REFERENCE:

Oath of office of members of assembly — form — effect of refusal to take oath and conviction of violation, Const. Art. III § 15