Pennsylvania Act 1951-582 — PRESCRIBING WHO MAY ADMINISTER OATH OF OFFICE TO GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR

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PRESCRIBING WHO MAY ADMINISTER OATH OF OFFICE TO GOVERNOR AND
                           LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
             Act of Jan. 14, (1952) 1951, P.L. 2078, No. 582          Cl. 71
                                  AN ACT

     Prescribing the persons who may administer the oath of office to
        the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  When the Governor elect and the Lieutenant-
     Governor elect are to be sworn into office, the oath or
     affirmation required by the Constitution shall be administered
     to each by one of the justices of the Supreme Court, or by a
     judge of a court of record learned in the law, or by any person
     authorized to administer oaths.
        Section 2.  The following parts of acts are hereby repealed
     to the extent hereinafter specified:
        (1)  Section three of the act, approved the nineteenth day of
     March, one thousand eight hundred four (Pamphlet Laws 330),
     entitled "An act to regulate the administering of certain
     oaths," absolutely.
        (2)  Section two of the act, approved the twenty-fourth day
     of March, one thousand eight hundred seventy-four (Pamphlet Laws
     48, No.7), entitled "An act providing for the election of
     lieutenant governor and fixing his salary," in so far as it
     provides for the administration of the oath of office to the
     Lieutenant-Governor elect.
        All acts and parts of acts are hereby repealed in so far as
     they are inconsistent with the provisions of this act.