Nördliche Marianen, 4. November 2014 : Definition der nordmarianischen Abstammung

Zusammen mit Wahlen abgehalten. Fragen auf englisch, chamorro und karolinisch. Die Urnen sind von 7.00 bis 19.00 geöffnet. Amtliches Endergebnis der Wahlkommission vom 7. November 2014.

House Legislative Initiative 18-1; vom Senat am 1. September 2014 mit 8 zu 0 und vom Abgeordnetenhaus am 16. September 2014 mit 13 zu 3 Stimmen angenommen.

Kap. XII Art. 4
A person of Northern Marianas descent is a person who is a citizen or national of the United States and who is of has at least one quarter some degree of Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood or a combination thereof or an adopted child a person of Northern Marianas descent if adopted while under the age of eighteen years. For purposes of determining Northern Marianas descent, a person shall be considered to be a full-blooded Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian if that person was born or domiciled in the Northern Mariana Islands by 1950 and was a citizen of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands before the termination of the Trusteeship with respect to the Commonwealth.
(a) Any person who has less than one quarter Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood or a combination thereof, claiming to be a person of Northern Marianas descent shall provide evidence to support that he/she possess some degree of Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood or a combination thereof to the Superior Court. Based oh the evidentary standard of 'preponderance of the evidence', the Superior Court may grant or deny such claim, and the decision of the Superior Court on such claim shall be subject to a de novo judicial review. However, if the Superior Court finds and agrees that the person in fact possesses at least some degree Northern Marianas Chamorro or Northern Marianas Carolinian blood or a combination thereof, the Superior Court shall certify that the person is a person of Northern Marianas descent.

Abstimmungsfrage:
"Do you approve House Legislative Initiative 18-1, HD1, SD1 to amend Section 4 of Article 12 of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands?"