Sec. 28-12. Loyalty oath. Roster of members.
Sec. 28-12. Loyalty oath. Roster of members. No person shall be employed or
associated in any capacity in any civil preparedness organization established under this
chapter who advocates a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the
government of the United States or of this state or the overthrow of any government in the
United States by force or violence, or who has been convicted of or is under indictment or
information charging any subversive act against the United States. Each person who is
appointed to serve in an organization for civil preparedness shall, before entering upon
his duties, and annually thereafter, take an oath orally before a local civil preparedness
officer or officers empowered by the commissioner to enlist volunteers, which oath shall
be substantially as follows: "I, ...., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of
Connecticut, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; 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." Each local civil preparedness officer shall provide to the department
a roster of sworn volunteer civil preparedness force members on or before the fifteenth
of August each year.
(June, 1951, S. 1916d; 1957, P.A. 380; 1959, P.A. 142; P.A. 73-544, S. 12; P.A. 79-61, S. 1, 2; P.A. 07-173, S. 4.)
History: 1959 act removed reference to past activities with subversive organizations from bar to employment and from
oath and revised oath; P.A. 73-544 substituted "civil preparedness" for "civil defense" throughout; P.A. 79-61 deleted
from the loyalty oath all reference to present activities and affiliations having to do with subversive acts and advocacy
thereof; P.A. 07-173 required that loyalty oath be administered annually, substituted "orally" for "verbally" re oath and
"commissioner" for "director" re person who may empower officer to enlist volunteers, and required officers to submit
roster of sworn volunteer members to department annually.