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<section article="ggp" article_name="General Provisions" number="2-202" title_number="2" title_name="Official Oaths" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Administration of Oath">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Governor and the Lieutenant Governor shall take and subscribe the oath required by Article I, § 9 of the Maryland Constitution:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on the third Wednesday of January that next follows the election of the Governor, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, between the hours of noon and 2:00 p.m. in the chamber of the Senate of Maryland; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if the Chief Justice is unable to attend, before one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of Maryland.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The clerk of the Supreme Court of Maryland shall maintain a book that records the oaths taken and subscribed under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
