Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico
§ 731b. Organization of a government pursuant to a constitution
Statutory text
Fully recognizing the principle of government by consent, sections 731b to 731e of this title are now adopted in the nature of a compact so that the people of Puerto Rico may organize a government pursuant to a constitution of their own adoption.
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. 81–446 § 1 · 64 Stat. 319
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 731b
(July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 1, 64 Stat. 319.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 1, 64 Stat. 319.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) Section 2, except the paragraph added thereto by Public Law 362, Eightieth Congress, first session, approved August 5, 1947.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Repeals
Act July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 6, 64 Stat. 320, provided that: “All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act [enacting sections 731b to 731e of this title] are hereby repealed.”
Credits
(July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 1, 64 Stat. 319.)