Tex. Gov't Code § 602.005 · Chapter 602. ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS
OATH MADE BY MEMBER OF ARMED FORCES OR BY MEMBER'S SPOUSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A commissioned officer of the United States armed forces or of a United States armed forces auxiliary may administer an oath made by a member of the armed forces, a member of an armed forces auxiliary, or a member's spouse and may give a certificate of the fact.
(b) Unless there is pleading or evidence to the contrary, a certificate signed under this section that is offered in evidence establishes that:
(1) the commissioned officer who signed was a commissioned officer on the date the officer signed; and
(2) the person who made the oath or affidavit was a member of the armed forces or an armed forces auxiliary or was a member's spouse when the oath was made.
(c) An oath is not invalid because the commissioned officer who certified the oath did not attach an official seal to the certificate.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.602.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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