48 U.S.C. § 1392 — Local laws continued; courts

submitted 109 years ago by ch. 171 to r/title-48-TERRITORIES-AND-INSULAR-POSSESSIONS · 187 words · no verdicts yet

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This section keeps specified local election and other laws in force in the islands, subject to the changed sovereignty and the listed federal provisions. It continues local administration and courts, permits certain changes to those laws, and gives the islands’ courts jurisdiction when the United States or one of its citizens is a party.

Until Congress provides otherwise, the election and voting laws in the 1906 code published at Amalienborg, and other local laws in force on January 17, 1917, remain in force to the extent compatible with the changed sovereignty and this section and sections 1391 and 1394–1396 of this title. Civil officials and the local courts must administer them, and the courts’ orders, judgments, and decrees must be enforced. With the President’s approval, or under the President’s rules, the colonial council with jurisdiction may repeal, change, or amend any of those laws. The islands’ courts have jurisdiction over all judicial proceedings and disputes in the islands in which the United States or one of its citizens may be a party.

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Until Congress shall otherwise provide, insofar as compatible with the changed sovereignty and not in conflict with the provisions of this section and sections 1391 1 and 1394 to 1396 of this title, the laws regulating elections and the electoral franchise as set forth in the code of laws published at Amalienborg the 6th day of April, 1906, and the other local laws, in force and effect in said islands on the 17th day of January, 1917, shall remain in force and effect in said islands, and the same shall be administered by the civil officials and through the local judicial tribunals established in said islands, respectively; and the orders, judgments, and decrees of said judicial tribunals shall be duly enforced. With the approval of the President, or under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, any of said laws may be repealed, altered, or amended by the colonial council having jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of the judicial tribunals of said islands shall extend to all judicial proceedings and controversies in said islands to which the United States or any citizen thereof may be a party.

Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 171, § 2, 39 Stat. 1132; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992.)

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1917Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 171 · 39 Stat. 1132
1948Amended · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 992

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