(20 ILCS 3305/20) (from Ch. 127, par. 1070)
Sec. 20.
Emergency Management Agency;
personnel; oath. Each
person, whether compensated or noncompensated, who is
appointed to serve in any capacity in the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency or an emergency services and disaster agency,
shall, before
entering upon his or her duties, take an oath,
in writing, before the Director or before
the coordinator of that
emergency services and disaster
agency or before other persons authorized to administer oaths in this
State, which oath shall be filed with the Director or with the coordinator
of the emergency services and disaster agency with which he or she shall
serve and
which oath shall be substantially as follows:
"I, _______________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
support and defend and bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of
the
United States and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and the territory,
institutions and facilities thereof, both public and private, against all
enemies,
foreign and domestic; 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, nor have I been 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 affiliated with the (name of political subdivision),
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."
(Source: P.A. 92-73, eff. 1-1-02.)
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