§ 1611. District Court of Virgin Islands; local courts; jurisdiction; practice and procedure

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.

1. 1954

   Pub. L. 83–558 § 21 · 68 Stat. 587

   Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1611

   July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 21, 68 Stat. 506

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 21, 68 Stat. 506

2. 1984

   Pub. L. 98–454 title VII § 702 · 98 Stat. 1732

   1. Amended · 48 U.S.C. § 1611

      Pub. L. 98–454 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

   2. Inserted · 48 U.S.C. § 1611

      Pub. L. 98–454 inserted “established by Congress” before “and in such”

   3. Substituted · 48 U.S.C. § 1611

      Pub. L. 98–454 substituted “appellate court and lower local courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law” for “court or courts of inferior jurisdiction as have been or may hereafter be established by local law”

   4. Added · 48 U.S.C. § 1611

      Pub. L. 98–454 added subsecs. (b) and (c)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 98–454 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted “established by Congress” before “and in such” and substituted “appellate court and lower local courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law” for “court or courts of inferior jurisdiction as have been or may hereafter be established by local law”, and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 702. Section 21 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Courts, U.S. Islands (68 Stat. 506; 48 U.S.C. 1611) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 21. (a) The judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in a court of record designated the ‘District Court of the Virgin Islands’ established by Congress, and in such appellate court and lower local courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law. “(b) The legislature of the Virgin Islands may vest in the courts of the Virgin Islands established by local law jurisdiction over all causes in the Virgin Islands over which any court established by the Constitution and laws of the United States does not have exclusive jurisdiction. Such jurisdiction shall be subject to the concurrent jurisdiction conferred on the District Court of the Virgin Islands by section 22 (a) and (c) of this Act. “(c) The rules governing the practice and procedure of the courts established by local law and those prescribing the qualifications and duties of the judges and officers thereof, oaths and bonds, and the times and places of holding court shall be governed by local law or the rules promulgated by those courts.”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 98–454 effective on ninetieth day following Oct. 5, 1984, see section 1005 of Pub. L. 98–454, set out as a note under section 1424 of this title.

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