No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any emergency management organization established under this article who advocates a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the government of the United States or of 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 emergency management shall, before entering upon his or her duties, take an oath, in writing, before a person authorized to administer oaths, or the State Emergency Management Director, or his or her duly authorized representatives, which oath shall be substantially as follows:
"I, _______, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alabama, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter.
"And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political party or organization that advocates, the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or violence; and that during such time as I am a member of the (name of emergency management organization) I will not advocate nor become a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or violence."
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 31 - Military Affairs and Civil Defense.
Chapter 9 - Emergency Management.
Article 1 - Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955.
Section 31-9-2 - Findings and Declarations of Necessity; Purpose of Article and Public Policy.
Section 31-9-4 - State Emergency Management Agency; Director of Emergency Management.
Section 31-9-6 - Powers and Duties of Governor With Respect to Emergency Management.
Section 31-9-7 - Mutual Interstate Aid Agreements and Compacts.
Section 31-9-8 - Emergency Powers of Governor.
Section 31-9-13 - Orders, Rules and Regulations of Governor - Effect; Distribution.
Section 31-9-14 - Orders, Rules, and Regulations of Governor - Enforcement.
Section 31-9-19 - Political Activities by Emergency Management Organizations.
Section 31-9-20 - Employment of Subversives by Emergency Management Organizations; Loyalty Oath.
Section 31-9-21 - Compensation Insurance for Emergency Management Workers and Trainees.
Section 31-9-23 - Article to Be Liberally Construed.
Section 31-9-24 - Regular and Emergency Appropriations; State Grants to Political Subdivisions.