Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico
§ 731e. Chapter continued in force and effect
Statutory text
This chapter is continued in force and effect.
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 § 4 · 64 Stat. 319
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 731e
(July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 4, 64 Stat. 319.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 4, 64 Stat. 319.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. Except as provided in section 5 of this Act, the Act entitled Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act. “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes”, approved March 2, 1917, as amended, is hereby continued 39 Stat. 951. 48 U. S. C. § 731 note. Post, p. 320. in force and effect and may hereafter be cited as the “Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act”.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes,’ approved , as amended”, meaning act Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, 39 Stat. 951, as amended, known as the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act and also popularly known as the Jones Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 731 of this title and Tables.
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act which comprises this chapter.
Credits
(July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 4, 64 Stat. 319.)