Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico
§ 733a. Citizens; residence in island of citizens of United States
Statutory text
All citizens of the United States who have resided or who shall after , reside in the island for one year shall be citizens of Puerto Rico.
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. 69–145 § 5a · 44 Stat. 253
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 733a
Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 5a, as added Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 2, 44 Stat. 1418
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 5a, as added Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 2, 44 Stat. 1418
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 5a of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Puerto Rico” substituted in text for “Porto Rico” pursuant to act , which is classified to section 731a of this title.
Credits
1917–1932 · 2 acts
- 1917Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 5a, as added Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 2, 44 Stat. 1418
- 1932amended May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.
Show as published
(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 5a, as added Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 2, 44 Stat. 1418; amended May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.)