This is a simple process.
The newly elected or appointed official has thirty days to swear out an oath of office according to law, or his office is vacant. If he continues to operate de facto, that is okay but when somebody calls him on it, then he must get it corrected fast.
A suitor demanded a Certificate of Fact that there was no oath of office and this showed up by the next morning.
For no reason, so far as term goes, he changed it to ALL UPPER CASE lettering shortly thereafter.
Attachment 4154
Then as I began putting the pressure on him with a $20M lien he Found God:
By looking carefully you can see how this Attorney General was trying his best not to bond himself to the oath, or the office to the comptroller of the state treasury.
Here is what he was supposed to do all along: