Volume 52
Public Law 75–308
To amend section 30 of the Act of March 2, 1917, entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.”
Approved June 1, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 30 of the Act of March 2, 1917, entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 30 of
Puerto Rico, civil government.
the Act entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes”, approved March 2, 1917, as amended,
is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 30.
The terms of office of senators and representatives elected
Terms of senators and representatives.
at any general election shall be four years, commencing on the 2d day of January following the date upon which such election was held. In case of a vacancy in the office of any senator or representative occurring by reason of death, resignation, or otherwise, the Governor, upon the recommendation of the central committee of the political party of which such senator or representative
Appointments to fill vacancies.
was a member, shall appoint a senator or representative from such political party to fill such vacancy who shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which his predecessor was elected. No senator or representative so
Appointment to civil office or office created during term of office.
elected or appointed shall, during his term of office, be appointed to any civil office under the Government of Puerto Rico, and no such senator or representative shall be eligible for appointment to any office created during his term of office until the expiration of two years after the date upon which his term of office shall have expired.”
Approved, June 1, 1938.