---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1753"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1753"
heading: "Qualifications for office of Delegate"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1753"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Delegates to Congress"
  - "Subchapter III — Northern Mariana Islands Delegate"
---

# §1753. Qualifications for office of Delegate


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

- (1) be at least 25 years of age on the date of the election;
- (2) have been a citizen of the United States for at least 7 years prior to the date of the election;
- (3) be a resident and domiciliary of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for at least 7 years prior to the date of the election;
- (4) be qualified to vote in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on the date of the election; and
- (5) not be, on the date of the election, a candidate for any other office.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–229, title VII, § 713, May 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 868.)