Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 16 — Delegates to Congress
§ 1756. Lack of effect on covenant
Statutory text
No provision of this subchapter shall be construed to alter, amend, or abrogate any provision of the covenant referred to in section 1751 of this title except section 901 of the covenant.
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.
Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008
Pub. L. 110–229 title VII § 716 · 122 Stat. 754
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1756
(Pub. L. 110–229, title VII, § 716, May 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 869.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 110–229, title VII, § 716, May 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 869.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 716. LACK OF EFFECT ON COVENANT. No provision of this subtitle shall be construed to alter, amend, or abrogate any provision of the covenant referred to in section 711 except section 901 of the covenant.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle B (§§ 711–718) of title VII of Pub. L. 110–229, , 122 Stat. 868, which enacted this subchapter and amended sections 4342, 6954 and 9432 of Title 10, Armed Forces. For complete classification of subtitle B to the Code, see Tables.
The covenant, referred to in text, is the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, which is contained in section 1 of Pub. L. 94–241, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.