§ 45-4-11. Engagement of town and city officers.
Unless some other form of engagement is specially prescribed by law, every person elected to any town or city office, whether by the town, city council, or town council, and every moderator and warden, and ward and district clerk, shall take the following engagement before he or she acts in that office, before some person authorized to administer oaths:
You (naming the person) do solemnly swear (or, affirm) that you will be true and faithful unto this state, and support the laws and Constitution thereof, and the Constitution of the United States; and that you will well and truly execute the office of (naming the office) for the term for which you have been elected, or until another be engaged in your place, or until you be legally discharged therefrom; so help you God (or this affirmation you make and give upon peril of the penalty of perjury).
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 39, § 15; G.L. 1909, ch. 49, § 15; P.L. 1914, ch. 1039, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 50, § 15; G.L. 1938, ch. 332, § 11; G.L. 1956, § 45-4-11.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 45-4 - Election and Qualification of Officers
Section 45-4-1. - Officers to be elected.
Section 45-4-2. - Meetings not to interfere with elections.
Section 45-4-3. - Assistant moderator to preside over town business.
Section 45-4-4. - Duplicate lists of electors.
Section 45-4-5. - Certificate of election of clerk.
Section 45-4-6. - Determination of number of council members to be elected.
Section 45-4-7. - Election of council members.
Section 45-4-9. - Failure by electors to elect officer.
Section 45-4-10. - Election of mayors.
Section 45-4-11. - Engagement of town and city officers.
Section 45-4-12. - Certificate of oath delivered to officer.
Section 45-4-13. - Bond of tax collectors.
Section 45-4-14. - Powers of successor tax collectors.
Section 45-4-15. - Tenure of town officers.
Section 45-4-16. - Filling of vacancies in office.
Section 45-4-17. - Special statutes controlling.