---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1713"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1713"
heading: "Qualifications for Office of Delegate"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1713"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Delegates to Congress"
  - "Subchapter I — Guam and Virgin Islands"
---

# §1713. Qualifications for Office of Delegate


To be eligible for the Office of Delegate a candidate must—

- (a) be at least twenty-five years of age on the date of the election,
- (b) have been a citizen of the United States for at least seven years prior to the date of the election,
- (c) be an inhabitant of the territory from which he is elected, and
- (d) not be, on the date of the election, a candidate for any other office.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–271, § 3, Apr. 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 119.)