(a) Each school board member shall, before entering upon the duties of the office, take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America, the Constitution of the State of Delaware, and the laws of Delaware governing public education, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of school board member according to the best of my ability; and I do further solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have not directly or indirectly paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, or offered to or promised to contribute, any money or other valuable thing as consideration or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at the election at which I was elected to said office, so help me God (or I so affirm).”
(b) The oath or affirmation shall be administered by the president or vice-president of the school board of the school district or in the case of a newly constituted board by a person appointed by the Secretary of Education to administer said oath.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 10. REORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Subchapter III. School Boards of Reorganized School Districts
§ 1042. School boards to which this subchapter applies.
§ 1044. Designation of official office.
§ 1045. Annual meeting; election of officers.
§ 1046. Compensation of school board members.
§ 1048. Regular and special meetings; quorum; roll call vote.
§ 1049A. Waiver of local regulations.
§ 1051. Election of school board members; exceptions.
§ 1053. Oath of office of the school board member.
§ 1054. Vacancy on school board.
§ 1055. Maintenance of school property.
§ 1056. School property; use, control and management.
§ 1057. Sale or lease of property; disposition of proceeds.
§ 1058. Controversies concerning rules and regulations of the school board.
§ 1060. False testimony is perjury.
§ 1061. School boards upon reorganization.
§ 1064. Reorganized vocational-technical school districts.
§ 1067. Election of Milford Special School District in 1969 for the Board of Education.
§ 1068. Indian River School Board [For application of this section, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 251, § 7].