Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 8A — Guam
§ 1423c. Privileges of members
Statutory text
The members of the legislature shall, in all cases except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the legislature and in going to and returning from the same.
No member of the legislature shall be held to answer before any tribunal other than the legislature itself for any speech or debate in the legislature.
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.
Organic Act of Guam
Pub. L. 81–512 § 13 · 64 Stat. 384
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1423c
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 13, 64 Stat. 388.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 13, 64 Stat. 388.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 13. (a) The members of the legislature shall, in all cases except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the legislature and in going to and returning from the same. (b) No member of the legislature shall be held to answer before any tribunal other than the legislature itself for any speech or debate in the legislature.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 13, 64 Stat. 388.)