The derivation of necessary conditions for the optimality of singular controls (in the sense of Pontryagin's maximum principle) in optimal control problems is inves- tigated. A new class of the necessary conditions is developed. This class of necessary conditions is composed of two parts, the first-order and second-order necessary conditions. As an application of these necessary conditions, an illustrative example is given, which shows that the necessary conditions developed are stronger than the generalized Legendre-Clebsch condition. That is, the singular control in the example satisfies the generalized Legendre-Clebsch condition, but does not satisfy the necessary conditions developed in this paper.