Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 17 — Northern Mariana Islands
§ 1808. Operations
Statutory text
Establishment
At any time on and after , the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Labor may establish and maintain offices and other operations in the Commonwealth for the purpose of carrying out duties under—
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.); and
the transition program established under section 1806 of this title, as added by subsection (a).
Personnel
To the maximum extent practicable and consistent with the satisfactory performance of assigned duties under applicable law, the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Labor shall recruit and hire personnel from among qualified United States citizens and national applicants residing in the Commonwealth to serve as staff in carrying out operations described in paragraph (1).
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 § 702(f) · 122 Stat. 754
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1808
(Pub. L. 110–229, title VII, § 702(f), May 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 863.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 110–229, title VII, § 702(f), May 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 863.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(f) Operations.— (1) Establishment.— At any time on and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Labor may establish and maintain offices and other operations in the Commonwealth for the purpose of carrying out duties under— (A) the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.); and (B) the transition program established under section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled “A Joint Resolution to approve the ‘Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America’, and for other purposes”, approved March 24, 1976 (Public Law 94–241), as added by subsection (a). (2) Personnel.— To the maximum extent practicable and consistent with the satisfactory performance of assigned duties under applicable law, the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Labor shall recruit and hire personnel from among qualified United States citizens and national applicants residing in the Commonwealth to serve as staff in carrying out operations described in paragraph (1).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Immigration and Nationality Act, referred to in par. (1)(A), is act June 27, 1952, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163, which is classified principally to chapter 12 (§ 1101 et seq.) of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1101 of Title 8 and Tables.
Section 1806 of this title, as added by subsection (a), referred to in par. (1)(B), is section 1806 of this title, as added by subsection (a) of section 702 of Pub. L. 110–229.
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008, and not as part of Pub. L. 94–241 which comprises this subchapter.