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48 U.S.C. § 1611 — District Court of Virgin Islands; local courts; jurisdiction; practice and procedure
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**(a) District Court of Virgin Islands; local courts** The judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in a court of record designated the “District Court of the Virgin Islands” established by Congress, and in such appellate court and lower local courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law.
**(b) Jurisdiction** The legislature of the Virgin Islands may vest in the courts of the Virgin Islands established by local law jurisdiction over all causes in the Virgin Islands over which any court established by the Constitution and laws of the United States does not have exclusive jurisdiction. Such jurisdiction shall be subject to the concurrent jurisdiction conferred on the District Court of the Virgin Islands by section 1612(a) and (c) of this title.
**(c) Practice and procedure** The rules governing the practice and procedure of the courts established by local law and those prescribing the qualifications and duties of the judges and officers thereof, oaths and bonds, and the times and places of holding court shall be governed by local law or the rules promulgated by those courts.
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**(a) District Court of Virgin Islands; local courts** The judicial power of the Virgin Islands shall be vested in a court of record designated the “District Court of the Virgin Islands” established by Congress, and in such appellate court and lower local courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by local law.
**(b) Jurisdiction** The legislature of the Virgin Islands may vest in the courts of the Virgin Islands established by local law jurisdiction over all causes in the Virgin Islands over which any court established by the Constitution and laws of the United States does not have exclusive jurisdiction. Such jurisdiction shall be subject to the concurrent jurisdiction conferred on the District Court of the Virgin Islands by section 1612(a) and (c) of this title.
**(c) Practice and procedure** The rules governing the practice and procedure of the courts established by local law and those prescribing the qualifications and duties of the judges and officers thereof, oaths and bonds, and the times and places of holding court shall be governed by local law or the rules promulgated by those courts.
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**(a) District Court of Guam; unified court system**
(1) The judicial authority of Guam shall be vested in a court established by Congress designated as the “District Court of Guam”, and a judicial branch of Guam which branch shall constitute a unified judicial system and include an appellate court designated as the “Supreme Court of Guam”, a trial court designated as the “Superior Court of Guam”, and such other lower local courts as may have been or shall hereafter be established by the laws of Guam.
(2) The Supreme Court of Guam may, by rules of such court, create divisions of the Superior Court of Guam and other local courts of Guam.
(3) The courts of record for Guam shall be the District Court of Guam, the Supreme Court of Guam, the Superior Court of Guam (except the Traffic and Small Claims divisions of the Superior Court of Guam) and any other local courts or divisions of local courts that the Supreme Court of Guam shall designate.
**(b) Jurisdiction** The District Court of Guam 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.
**(c) Original jurisdiction** In addition to the jurisdiction described in subsection (b), the District Court of Guam shall have original jurisdiction in all other causes in Guam, jurisdiction over which is not then vested by the legislature in another court or other courts established by it. In causes brought in the district court solely on the basis of this subsection, the district court shall be considered a court established by the laws of Guam for the purpos
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For purposes of this chapter—
**(a)** “clerk” and “clerk of the court” shall mean the clerk of the district court of the United States, any authorized deputy clerk, and any other person authorized by the court to assist the clerk in the performance of functions under this chapter;
**(b)** “chief judge” shall mean the chief judge of any district court of the United States;
**(c)** “voter registration lists” shall mean the official records maintained by State or local election officials of persons registered to vote in either the most recent State or the most recent Federal general election, or, in the case of a State or political subdivision thereof that does not require registration as a prerequisite to voting, other official lists of persons qualified to vote in such election. The term shall also include the list of eligible voters maintained by any Federal examiner pursuant to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 where the names on such list have not been included on the official registration lists or other official lists maintained by the appropriate State or local officials. With respect to the districts of Guam and the Virgin Islands, “voter registration lists” shall mean the official records maintained by territorial election officials of persons registered to vote in the most recent territorial general election;
**(d)** “lists of actual voters” shall mean the official lists of persons actually voting in either the most recent State or the most recent Federal general election;
**(e)** “division” shall mean: (1) one or more statutory divisions of a judicial district; or (2) in statutory divisions that contain more than one place of holding court, or in judicial districts where there are no statutory divisions, such counties, parishes, or similar political subdivision
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1612
Virgin Islands, and shall be in addition to the
authority conferred upon the Inspector General
by chapter 4 of title 5.
(c) Transfer of personnel, assets, etc., of office of
government comptroller for Virgin Islands to
Office of Inspector General, Department of
the Interior
In order to carry out the provisions of this sec-
tion, the personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts,
property, records, and unexpended balances of
appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and
other funds employed, held, used, arising from,
available or to be made available, of the office of
the government comptroller for the Virgin Is-
lands related to its audit function are hereby
transferred to the Office of Inspector General,
Department of the Interior.
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 17, as added Pub. L.
97–357, title III, § 309(b), Oct. 19, 1982, 96 Stat.
1710; amended Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(b)(92), Dec. 27,
2022, 136 Stat. 4352.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 1599, acts July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 17, 68
Stat. 505; Aug. 28, 1958, Pub. L. 85–851, §§ 4, 5, 72 Stat.
1094, 1095; Mar. 20, 1962, Pub. L. 87–421, 76 Stat. 43; Aug.
23, 1968, Pub. L. 90–496, § 9, 82 Stat. 840; Oct. 15, 1977,
Pub. L. 95–134, title III, § 301(a), 91 Stat. 1162, related to
appointment, status, and duties of the government
comptroller for the Virgin Islands, prior to repeal by
Pub. L. 97–357, § 309(b).
AMENDMENTS
2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–286 substituted ‘‘chapter
4 of title 5.’’ for ‘‘the Inspector General Act of 1978 (92
Stat. 1101), as amended.’’
SUBCHAPTER V—JUDICIAL BRANCH
§ 1611. District Court of Virgin Islands; local
courts; jurisdiction; practice and procedure
(a) District Court of Virgin Islands; local
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