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[CITE: 48USC1732]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                    CHAPTER 16--DELEGATES TO CONGRESS
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--AMERICAN SAMOA
 
Sec. 1732. Election of delegates; majority; runoff election; 
        vacancy; commencement of term
        
    (a) The Delegate shall be elected by the people qualified to vote 
for the popularly elected officials of the Territory of American Samoa 
at the general Federal election of 1980, and thereafter at such general 
election every second year thereafter. The Delegate shall be elected at 
large, by separate ballot, and by a majority of the votes cast for the 
office of Delegate. If no candidate receives such majority, on the 
fourteenth day following such election a runoff election shall be held 
between the candidates receiving the highest and the second highest 
number of votes cast for the office of Delegate. In case of a permanent 
vacancy in the office of Delegate, by reason of death, resignation, or 
permanent disability, the office of Delegate shall remain vacant until a 
successor shall have been elected and qualified.
    (b) The term of the Delegate shall commence on the third day of 
January following the date of the election.

(Pub. L. 95-556, Sec. 2, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2078.)
