---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1423f"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1423f"
heading: "Qualifications of members"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1423f"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Guam"
  - "Subchapter III — The Legislature"
---

# §1423f. Qualifications of members


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.


## Source credit

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