As Amended
SEC. 77-1-35. Administration of oaths; taking of affidavits; examination of witnesses; perjury.
The several members of the commission and the secretary may, in the discharge of their duties, administer oaths and take affidavits. The commission and each member thereof may examine witnesses under oath in all matters coming before them. If any person shall testify falsely, or make any false affidavit or oath before the commission, or before any of the commissioners, or before any officer, to any matter coming before the commission, he shall be guilty of perjury, and, upon conviction, shall be punished according to law.
SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 4279; 1906, Sec. 4831; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 7616; 1930, Sec. 7035; 1942, Sec. 7812; reenacted without change, Laws, 1982, ch. 389, Sec. 18; reenacted, 1990, ch. 530, Sec. 16, eff from and after July 1, 1990. Reenacted without change, Laws, 1993, ch. 616, Sec. 14, eff from and after August 30, 1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the amendment of this section); reenacted without change, 1996, ch. 526, Sec. 15, eff from and after the date said ch. 526 is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, Ch. 303, § 15, HB 1291; Reenacted without change, Laws, 2002, ch. 452, § 15, SB 2820, eff July 3, 2002 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the reenactment of this section.).
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2002.