Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Oath of office, Rationing, Records management, Charles-Jean Baptiste Bonnin, Administration of an estate on death, Oath of allegiance, DocPoint, Records Life Cycle, Sealed birth records, Electronic Document and Records Management System, E-Administration, Combinatorial explosion, Business record, Server administrator. Excerpt: An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations. Such oaths are often required by the laws of the state, religious body, or other organization before the person may actually exercise the powers of the office or any religious body. It may be administered at an inauguration, coronation, enthronement, or other ceremony connected with the taking up of office itself, or it may be administered privately. In some cases it may be administered privately and then repeated during a public ceremony. Some oaths of office are a statement of loyalty to a constitution or other legal text or to a person or other office-holder (e.g., an oath to support the constitution of the state, or of loyalty to the king). Under the laws of a state it may be considered treason or a high crime to betray a sworn oath of office. The Constitution of Belarus requires the president-elect to recite the following oath before taking office: The affirmation required by the Constitution of Brazil to be taken by the president-elect upon entering into office is as follows: The vice-president is required to take the same pledge. The affirmations of office required of members of the National Congress of Brazil are specifyed in the rules of procedure of each house (the Chamber of Deputies and Senate) The internal rules of the Supreme Federal Court s...