---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1733"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1733"
heading: "Qualifications for Office of Delegate"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1733"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Delegates to Congress"
  - "Subchapter II — American Samoa"
---

# §1733. Qualifications for Office of Delegate


To be eligible for the office of Delegate a candidate shall—

- (a) be at least twenty-five years of age on the date of the election;
- (b) owe allegiance to the United States;
- (c) be an inhabitant of the Territory of American Samoa; and
- (d) not be, on the date of the election, a candidate for any other office.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–556, § 3, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2078; Pub. L. 95–584, § 3, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2483.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–584 substituted allegiance requirement for provision requiring United States citizenship for at least seven years prior to the date of the election.