1. (a) 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.

2. (b)

   1. (1) 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:

      1. (i) Who has taken the oath of office before the clerk; or
      2. (ii) Whose oath of office is recorded in the clerk's office.
   2. (2) 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.

Added by Acts 1997, c. 31, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2023, c. 666, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2023.

Formerly Art. 17, §§ 71-73.