Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 7 — Virgin Islands
§ 1406l. Effective date
Statutory text
This subchapter shall take effect , but until its provisions shall severally become operative as herein provided, the corresponding legislative, executive, and judicial functions of the existing government shall continue to be exercised as now provided by law or ordinance, and the present incumbents of all offices under the Government of the Virgin Islands shall continue in office until their successors are appointed and have qualified unless sooner removed by competent authority.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 74–699 § 40 · 49 Stat. 869
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1406l
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 40, 49 Stat. 1817.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 40, 49 Stat. 1817.)
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Credits
(June 22, 1936, ch. 699, § 40, 49 Stat. 1817.)