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title: "48 U.S.C. § 1423f"
description: "Qualifications of members"
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title_number: 48
title_name: "TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS"
chapter_number: "8A"
chapter_name: "GUAM"
section: "1423f"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1423f"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 48 U.S.C. § 1423f - Qualifications of members

## Text

No person shall sit in the legislature who is not a citizen of the United States, who has not attained the age of twenty-five years and who has not been domiciled in Guam for at least five years immediately preceding the sitting of the legislature in which he seeks to qualify as a member, or who has been convicted of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude and has not received a pardon restoring his civil rights.

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, § 16, 64 Stat. 388.)