Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 17 — Northern Mariana Islands
§ 1846. Exemption from assessment and taxation of real property owned by Commonwealth in United States capital
Statutory text
Real property owned by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the capital of the United States and used by the Resident Representative thereof in the discharge of his representative duties under the Covenant shall be exempt from assessment and taxation.
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. 101–219 title II § 208 · 103 Stat. 1870
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1846
(Pub. L. 101–219, title II, § 208, Dec. 12, 1989, 103 Stat. 1875.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–219, title II, § 208, Dec. 12, 1989, 103 Stat. 1875.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 208. OFFICE OF THE RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE. Real property owned by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the capital of the United States and used by the Resident Representative thereof in the discharge of his representative duties under the Covenant shall be exempt from assessment and taxation.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
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.
Codification
Section was formerly set out as a note under section 1681 of this title.