Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 44 - Civil Defense
Section 44.115 - Persons employed by or associated with civil defense agencies — qualifications — oath required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1971
44.115. Persons employed by or associated with civil defense agencies — qualifications — oath required. — No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any organization established under sections 44.010 to 44.130 who advocates or has advocated a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the government of the United States or in this state or the overthrow of any government in the United States by force or violence, or 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 civil defense shall, before entering upon his duties, take an oath, in writing, before a person authorized to administer oaths in this state, 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 Missouri, 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 a time as I am a member of the (name of disaster or emergency 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."
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(L. 1967 p. 122 § 8, A.L. 1971 S.B. 170)

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title V - Military Affairs and Police

Chapter 44 - Civil Defense

Section 44.010 - Definitions.

Section 44.020 - State emergency management agency created.

Section 44.022 - Powers and duties of governor.

Section 44.023 - Disaster volunteer program established, agency's duties — expenses — immunity from liability, exception.

Section 44.024 - Public safety director to head emergency management agency.

Section 44.028 - State may accept federal goods and services on behalf of itself and its subdivisions.

Section 44.032 - Emergency powers of governor, uses — Missouri disaster fund, funding, expenditures, procedures, purposes — aid to political subdivisions, when, procedure — expenditures in excess of $1,000, governor to approve.

Section 44.035 - Persons with health-related ailments, voluntary county registry for disasters or emergencies.

Section 44.045 - Health care professionals may be deployed during a state of emergency — immunity from liability, when — release of certain confidential information permitted, when.

Section 44.080 - All political subdivisions shall establish a local emergency management organization.

Section 44.090 - Mutual-aid agreements — participation in statewide mutual aid system — reimbursement for services provided, benefits.

Section 44.091 - Mutual aid agreements, powers of arrest — law enforcement deemed employee of sending agency — immunity.

Section 44.095 - Mutual aid agreement with Kansas — definitions — requests for assistance — immunity — certification by director, notice to revisor of statutes.

Section 44.098 - Law enforcement mutual-aid region, critical incidents — request for aid, response, Kansas and Oklahoma — notice to revisor, when (Jasper and Newton counties).

Section 44.100 - Emergency powers of governor.

Section 44.101 - Firearms and ammunition, state of emergency, no restrictions permitted.

Section 44.105 - Governor-declared state of emergency, suspension of certain state law provisions, when — volunteers, responsibilities of — staffing authority.

Section 44.110 - Cooperation of existing state agencies and political subdivisions in emergency — suspension of activities and functions of state agencies and political subdivisions may be ordered.

Section 44.112 - Rules of governor to govern all organizations established under sections 44.010 to 44.130 — each organization to have copy of all rules and regulations.

Section 44.113 - Political activity by emergency management organizations prohibited.

Section 44.114 - Local licensing or registration ordinances, prohibition on imposition of restrictions or enforcement on insurer's claims handling operations, when.

Section 44.115 - Persons employed by or associated with civil defense agencies — qualifications — oath required.

Section 44.120 - Expenses, how paid.

Section 44.125 - Agency to work with volunteers.

Section 44.130 - Regulations to be filed with secretary of state — violations — penalty.

Section 44.225 - Citation of law — short title.

Section 44.227 - Commission on seismic safety created — members, qualifications — officers — quorum — terms — removal from office — vacancies — expenses — staff.

Section 44.229 - Commission's powers.

Section 44.231 - Program to prepare state for responding to a major earthquake, commission's duty to establish.

Section 44.233 - Duties of commission.

Section 44.235 - Review and advisory powers of commission.

Section 44.415 - Emergency mutual aid compact.