Guam § 65119 - Personnel: Eligibility and Oath.

§ 65119. Personnel: Eligibility and Oath.

No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any civil defense 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 in Guam 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 any organization for civil

defense, shall, before entering upon his duties, take an oath, in writing, before a person authorized to

administer oaths in Guam, 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 laws of Guam, 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.

And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political party

or organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of Guam

by force or violence; and that during such time as I am a member of the (insert name of the Guam

Civil Defense Agency) 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 Guam by

force or violence.”