10 U.S.C. § 936 — Art. 136. Authority to administer oaths
submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1041 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 214 words · no verdicts yet
Specified active-duty or training personnel may administer oaths for military administration, military justice, and duties. Judges of the Armed Forces appeals court have additional oath powers.
(a) While on active duty* or inactive-duty training*, these people may administer oaths for military administration, including military justice: (1) judge advocates; (2) summary courts-martial; (3) adjutants and specified assistant, acting, and personnel adjutants; (4) commanding officers of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; (5) staff judge advocates, legal officers, and their acting or assistant versions; and (6) others designated by armed-forces regulations or statute. (b) The following may administer oaths needed for their duties: (1) presidents, military judges, trial counsel, and assistant trial counsel of general and special courts-martial; (2) presidents and court counsel of courts of inquiry; (3) officers designated to take depositions; (4) people assigned to investigate; (5) recruiting officers; and (6) others designated by regulation or statute. (c) Each judge and senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces* has the oath, affirmation, and acknowledgment powers that section 459 of title 28 gives United States justices and judges.
The following persons on active duty* or performing inactive-duty training* may administer oaths for the purposes of military administration, including military justice:
All judge advocates.
All summary courts-martial.
All adjutants, assistant adjutants, acting adjutants, and personnel adjutants.
All commanding officers of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.
All staff judge advocates and legal officers, and acting or assistant staff judge advocates and legal officers.
All other persons designated by regulations of the armed forces* or by statute.
The following persons on active duty or performing inactive-duty training may administer oaths necessary in the performance of their duties:
The president, military judge*, trial counsel, and assistant trial counsel for all general and special courts-martial.
The president and the counsel for the court of any court of inquiry.
All officers designated to take a deposition.
All persons detailed to conduct an investigation.
All recruiting officers.
All other persons designated by regulations of the armed forces or by statute.
Each judge and senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces shall have the powers relating to oaths, affirmations, and acknowledgments provided to justices and judges of the United States by section 459 of title 28.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 77; Pub. L. 86–589, July 5, 1960, 74 Stat. 329; Pub. L. 90–179, § 1(7), Dec. 8, 1967, 81 Stat. 546; Pub. L. 90–632, § 2(34), Oct. 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 1343; Pub. L. 98–209, § 2(f), Dec. 6, 1983, 97 Stat. 1393; Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title VIII, § 804(c), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3907; Pub. L. 100–456, div. A, title XII, § 1234(a)(1), Sept. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 2059; Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title V, § 551(b), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1566; Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title V, § 542, Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 114; Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 541(a), div. E, title LXI, § 5502, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2124, 2960.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 1960Amended · Pub. L. 86-589 · 74 Stat. 329
- 1967Amended · Pub. L. 90-179 · 81 Stat. 546
- 1968Amended · Pub. L. 90-632 · 82 Stat. 1343
- 1983Amended · Pub. L. 98-209 · 97 Stat. 1393
- 1986Amended · Pub. L. 99-661 · 100 Stat. 3907
- 1988Amended · Pub. L. 100-456 · 102 Stat. 2059
- 1990Amended · Pub. L. 101-510 · 104 Stat. 1566
- 2008Amended · Pub. L. 110-181 · 122 Stat. 114
- 2016Amended · Pub. L. 114-328 · 130 Stat. 2124, 2960
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