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[CITE: 48USC1543]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1543. United States citizenship requirement for government 
        officials
        
    All members of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, the Governor, 
the Lieutenant Governor, all judges and all officials of the government 
of the Virgin Islands who report directly to the Governor shall be 
citizens of the United States.

(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, Sec. 29, 68 Stat. 509; Pub. L. 98-213, 
Sec. 5(a), Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1460.)


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 98-213 amended section generally, substituting 
provisions requiring United States citizenship for all members of the 
Legislature of the Virgin Islands, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and 
all officials who report directly to the Governor for provisions 
requiring such citizenship for all officers of the Virgin Islands, and 
struck out provisions requiring written oaths and prescribing the oath.
