§ 1733. Qualifications for Office of Delegate

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. 1978

   Pub. L. 95–556 § 3 · 92 Stat. 2078

   Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1733

   Pub. L. 95–556, § 3, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2078

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 95–556, § 3, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2078

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. Eligibility. 48 USC 1733. To be eligible for the office of Delegate a candidate shall— (a) be at least twenty-five years of age on the date of the election; (b) have been a United States citizen for at least seven years prior to the date of the election; (c) be an inhabitant of the Territory of American Samoa; and (d) not be, on the date of the election, a candidate for any other office.

2. 1978

   Pub. L. 95–584 § 3 · 92 Stat. 2483

   Substituted · 48 U.S.C. § 1733(b)

   Pub. L. 95–584 substituted allegiance requirement for provision requiring United States citizenship for at least seven years prior to the date of the election

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–584 substituted allegiance requirement for provision requiring United States citizenship for at least seven years prior to the date of the election.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. Subsection 3(b) of the Act entitled “An Act to provide that 48 USC 1733. the Territory of American Samoa be represented by a nonvoting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, and for other purposes” is hereby amended to read as follows: “(b) owe allegiance to the United States;”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision