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[CITE: 48USC1424b]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                      SUBCHAPTER IV--THE JUDICIARY
 
Sec. 1424b. Judge of District Court; appointment, tenure, 
        removal, and compensation; appointment of United States attorney 
        and marshal
        
    (a) The President shall, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, appoint a judge for the District Court of Guam 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.
    The Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of the United States 
may assign a judge of a local court of record or a judge of the High 
Court of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands or a circuit or 
district judge of the ninth circuit or a recalled senior judge of the 
District Court of Guam or of the District Court for 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 of Guam whenever it is made to appear that 
such an assignment is necessary for the proper dispatch of the business 
of the court.
    (b) The President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate, a United States attorney and United States marshal for 
Guam to whose offices the provisions of chapters 35 and 37 of title 28, 
respectively, shall apply.

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, Sec. 24, 64 Stat. 390; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, 
Sec. 55(a), 65 Stat. 728; Pub. L. 85-444, Sec. 3, June 4, 1958, 72 Stat. 
179; Pub. L. 98-454, title VIII, Sec. 802, Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1743.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98-454, Sec. 802(a)-(c), substituted 
``for the term of ten years'' for ``for a term of eight years'' in first 
par., and, in second par., substituted ``a local court of record'' for 
``the Island Court of Guam'' and inserted ``or a recalled senior judge 
of the District Court of Guam or of the District Court of the Northern 
Mariana Islands'' after ``ninth circuit''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-454, Sec. 802(d), substituted ``35'' and 
``37'' for ``31'' and ``33'' respectively.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98-454, Sec. 802(e), struck out subsec. (c) 
which provided that chapters 43 and 49 of title 28 shall apply to the 
District Court of Guam.
    1958--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-444 increased the term of office from 
four to eight years, substituted provisions requiring the salary of the 
judge to be at the rate prescribed for judges of the United States 
district courts for provisions which required the salary of the judge to 
be the same as salary of the Governor of Guam, and inserted provisions 
permitting the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit to make temporary 
assignments.
    1951--Subsec. (a). Act Oct. 31, 1951, in second sentence, struck out 
``, and shall be entitled to the benefits of retirement provided in 
section 373 of title 28''.
    Subsec. (c). Act Oct. 31, 1951, struck out references to chapters 
21, 41, and 57 of title 28.


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Amendments 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.

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of this title.


   Extension of Term of District Judges; Applicability; Effective Date

    Section 1004 of Pub. L. 98-454 provided that: ``The provisions of 
sections 706(a), 802(a), and 901(a) of this Act [amending sections 1614, 
1424b, and 1821, respectively, of this title] extending the terms of 
district court judges of the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern 
Mariana Islands, respectively, from eight to ten years shall be 
applicable to the judges of those courts holding office on the effective 
date of this Act [Oct. 5, 1984].''


                            Cross References

    Compensation of district court judges, see section 135 of Title 28, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
    Court officers and employees, general provisions applicable to, see 
section 951 et. seq. of Title 28.
    General provisions applicable to courts and judges, see section 451 
et seq. of Title 28.
    Provisions relating to Administrative Office of the United States 
Courts, applicability to District Court of Guam, see section 610 of 
Title 28.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1424, 1424-3 of this title.
