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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="2-212" title_number="2" title_name="Court Personnel" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="General Duties of Clerk">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The clerk of a circuit court shall regularly report to the Secretary of State the name and office of each officer who has taken, before the clerk, the oath required by the Constitution or another law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>On request of any person, the clerk of a circuit court shall give a certificate, under the seal of the clerk’s office, of the qualification of any public officer:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Who has taken the oath of office before the clerk; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Whose oath of office is recorded in the clerk’s office.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The clerk shall charge $1 for issuing a certificate under seal of the qualifications of any public official, including justices of the peace and notaries public.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
