Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico
§ 892. Qualifications of Commissioner; appointment to fill vacancy
Statutory text
No person shall be eligible to election as Resident Commissioner who is not a bona fide citizen of the United States and who is not more than twenty-five years of age, and who does not read and write the English language. In case of a vacancy in the office of Resident Commissioner by death, resignation, or otherwise, the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a Resident Commissioner to fill the vacancy, who shall serve until the next general election and until his successor is elected and qualified.
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. 64–145 § 36 · 39 Stat. 226
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 892
(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 36, 39 Stat. 963.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 36, 39 Stat. 963.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is comprised of fifth and sixth sentences of section 36 of act . For classification of the remainder of section 36, see Codification note set out under section 891 of this title.
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act Apr. 12, 1900, ch. 191, § 39, 31 Stat. 86.
Credits
(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 36, 39 Stat. 963.)