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48 U.S.C. § 1825 — Effective date
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This subchapter shall come into force upon its approval or at the time proclaimed by the President for the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands to become effective, whichever is the later date.
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This subchapter shall come into force upon its approval or at the time proclaimed by the President for the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands to become effective, whichever is the later date.
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The Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, the text of which is as follows, is hereby approved.
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**(a) Establishment; judicial circuit; terms of court** There is established for and within the Northern Mariana Islands a court of record to be known as the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. The Northern Mariana Islands shall constitute a part of the same judicial circuit of the United States as Guam. Terms of court shall be held on Saipan and at such other places and at such times as the court may designate by rule or order.
**(b) Appointment, tenure, removal, compensation, etc., of District Court judge; appointment of United States attorney and United States marshal**
(1) The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a judge for the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands who shall hold office for the term of ten years and until his successor is chosen and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President for cause. The judge shall receive a salary payable by the United States which shall be at the rate prescribed for judges of the United States district courts.
(2) The Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the United States may assign justices of the High Court of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands or judges of courts of record of the Northern Mariana Islands who are licensed attorneys in good standing or a circuit or district judge of the ninth circuit, including a judge of the District Court of Guam who is appointed by the President or a recalled senior judge of the District Court of Guam or of the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Chief Justice of the United States may assign any other United States circuit or district judge with the consent of the judge so assigned and of the chief judge of his circuit to serve temporarily as a judge in the District Court for the North
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**(a)** The District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands shall have the jurisdiction of a District Court of the United States, including, but not limited to, the diversity jurisdiction provided for in [section 1332 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1332&num=0&edition=prelim) and that of a bankruptcy court of the United States.
**(b)** The district court shall have original jurisdiction in all causes in the Northern Mariana Islands not described in subsection (a) jurisdiction over which is not vested by the Constitution or laws of the Northern Mariana Islands in a court or courts of the Northern Mariana Islands. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court of the Northern Mariana Islands for the purposes of determining the requirements of indictment by grand jury or trial by jury.
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**(a) Appellate jurisdiction of District Court** Prior to the establishment of an appellate court for the Northern Mariana Islands the district court shall have such appellate jurisdiction over the courts established by the Constitution or laws of the Northern Mariana Islands as the Constitution and laws of the Northern Mariana Islands provide, except that such Constitution and laws may not preclude the review of any judgment or order which involves the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, including the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America (90 Stat. 263) (hereinafter referred to as “Covenant”), or any authority exercised thereunder by an officer or agency of the Government of the United States, or the conformity of any law enacted by the legislature of the Northern Mariana Islands or of any orders or regulations issued or actions taken by the executive branch of the government of the Northern Mariana Islands with the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, including the Covenant or with any authority exercised thereunder by an officer or agency of the United States.
**(b) Appellate division of District Court; quorum; presiding judge; designation of judges; decisions** Appeals to the district court shall be heard and determined by an appellate division of the court consisting of three judges, of whom two shall constitute a quorum. The judge appointed for the court by the President shall be the presiding judge of the appellate division and shall preside therein unless disqualified or otherwise unable to act. The other judges who are to sit in the appellate division at any session shall be designated by the presiding judge from among the judges assigned to t
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**(a)** The relations between the courts established by the Constitution or laws of the United States and the courts of the Northern Mariana Islands with respect to appeals, certiorari, removal of causes, the issuance of writs of habeas corpus, and other matters or proceedings shall be governed by the laws of the United States pertaining to the relations between the courts of the United States including the Supreme Court of the United States, and the courts of the several States in such matters and proceedings, except as otherwise provided in article IV of the covenant: Provided, That for the first fifteen years following the establishment of an appellate court of the Northern Mariana Islands the United States court of appeals for the judicial circuit which includes the Northern Mariana Islands shall have jurisdiction of appeals from all final decisions of the highest court of the Northern Mariana Islands from which a decision could be had in all cases involving the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, or any authority exercised thereunder, unless those cases are reviewable in the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands pursuant to [section 1823 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1823&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b)** Those portions of title 28 which apply to Guam or the District Court of Guam shall be applicable to the Northern Mariana Islands or the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, respectively, except as otherwise provided in article IV of the covenant. The district court established by this subchapter shall be a district court as that term is used in [section 3006A of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3006A&num=0&edition=
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There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1825
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 1694c of
this title.
AMENDMENTS
1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–454 inserted ‘‘including
the Supreme Court of the United States,’’ after ‘‘courts
of the United States’’ in first sentence.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–454 effective on ninetieth
day following Oct. 5, 1984, see section 1005 of Pub. L.
98–454, set out as a note under section 1424 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE
For effective date of this section, see section 1825 of
this title and Effective Date of Constitution note there-
under.
§ 1825. Effective date
This subchapter shall come into force upon its
approval or at the time proclaimed by the Presi-
dent for the Constitution of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands to become effective, whichever is
the later date.
(Pub. L. 95–157, § 5, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1267.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 1694d of
this title.
Executive Documents
EFFECTIVE DATE OF CONSTITUTION
For provisions of proclamation of President relating
to effective date for Constitution of Northern Mariana
Islands, see Proc. No. 4534, Oct. 24, 1977, 42 F.R. 56593,
set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.
§ 1826. Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated such
sums as may be necessary to carry out the pur-
poses of this subchapter.
(Pub. L. 95–157, § 6, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1267.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section was formerly classified to section 1694e of
this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
For effective date of this section, see section 1825 of
this title and Effective Da
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