Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 12 — Virgin Islands [1954]
§ 1576. General elections; time; transfer of Council functions, property, etc.
Statutory text
The next general election in the Virgin Islands shall be held on . At such time there shall be chosen the entire membership of the legislature as herein provided. Thereafter the general elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, beginning with the year 1956, and every two years thereafter. The Municipal Council of Saint Thomas and Saint John, and the Municipal Council of Saint Croix, existing on , shall continue to function until , at which time all of the functions, property, personnel, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations and funds of the governments of the municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John and the municipality of Saint Croix shall be transferred to the government of the Virgin Islands.
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. 83–558 § 10 · 68 Stat. 587
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1576
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 10, 68 Stat. 502.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 10, 68 Stat. 502.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. powers of the commission (a) The Commission or, on the authorization of the Commission, Hearings. any subcommittee or member thereof, shall have power to hold hearings and sit and act at such times and places in the United States Subpena. and abroad, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, and to take such testimony, as the Commission or such subcommittee or member may deem advisable. Subpenas shall be issued under the signature of the Chairman of the Commission and shall be served by any person designated by him. (b) The Commission may authorize the Chairman or the Vice Expenditures. Fiscal statement and audit. Chairman to make the expenditures herein authorized and such other expenditures as the Commission may deem advisable: Provided, however, That when the Commission ceases its activities it shall submit to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives a statement of its fiscal transactions properly audited by the Comptroller General of the United States. (c) The Commission is authorized to secure from any department, Securing of information. agency, or independent instrumentality of the Government any information it deems necessary to carry out its functions under this Act; and each such department, agency, and instrumentality is authorized and directed to furnish such information to the Commission, upon request made by the Chairman or by the Vice Chairman when acting as Chairman.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 10, 68 Stat. 502.)