Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 8A — Guam
§ 1423k. Right of petition
Statutory text
The legislature or any person or group of persons in Guam shall have the unrestricted right of petition. It shall be the duty of all officers of the government to receive and without delay to act upon or forward, as the case may require, any such petition.
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 § 21 · 64 Stat. 384
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1423k
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 21, 64 Stat. 389.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 21, 64 Stat. 389.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 21. The legislature or any person or group of persons in Guam Right of petition. shall have the unrestricted right of petition. It shall be the duty of all officers of the government to receive and without delay to act upon or forward, as the case may require, any such petition.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 21, 64 Stat. 389.)