Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 8A — Guam
§ 1423f. Qualifications of members
Statutory text
No person shall sit in the legislature who is not a citizen of the United States, who has not attained the age of twenty-five years and who has not been domiciled in Guam for at least five years immediately preceding the sitting of the legislature in which he seeks to qualify as a member, or who has been convicted of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude and has not received a pardon restoring his civil rights.
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 § 16 · 64 Stat. 384
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1423f
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 16, 64 Stat. 388.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 16, 64 Stat. 388.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 16. No person shall sit in the legislature who is not a citizen of the United States, who has not attained the age of twenty-five years and who has not been domiciled in Guam for at least five years immediately preceding the sitting of the legislature in which he seeks to qualify as a member, or who has been convicted of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude and has not received a pardon restoring his civil rights.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 16, 64 Stat. 388.)