Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 16 — Delegates to Congress
§ 1714. Territorial legislature; determination of election procedure
Statutory text
The legislature of each territory may determine the order of names on the ballot for election of Delegate, the method by which a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate shall be conducted, the method by which ties between candidates for the office of Delegate shall be resolved, and all other matters of local application pertaining to the election and the office of Delegate not otherwise expressly provided for herein.
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. 92–271 § 4 · 86 Stat. 118
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1714
(Pub. L. 92–271, § 4, Apr. 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 119.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–271, § 4, Apr. 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 119.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. The legislature of each territory may determine the order of Territorial legislature election procedures. names on the ballot for election of Delegate the method by which a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate shall be conducted, the method by which ties between candidates for the office of Delegate shall be resolved, and all other matters of local application pertaining to the election and the office of Delegate not otherwise expressly provided for herein.
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