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[CITE: 48USC1392]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                        CHAPTER 7--VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1392. Local laws continued; courts

    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may be repealed, altered, or amended by the colonial council having 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.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 171, Sec. 2, 39 Stat. 1132; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 
Sec. 39, 62 Stat. 992.)

                       References in Text

    Section 1391 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by 
Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 643.


                               Amendments

    1948--Act June 25, 1948, repealed last sentence relating to appeals. 
See section 1294 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.


                    Effective Date of 1948 Amendment

    Amendment by act June 25, 1948, effective Sept. 1, 1948, see section 
38 of that act set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 1 of 
Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
