In this chapter, the term “State” includes a State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Pub. L. 113–287, § 3128 Stat. 3254(, , .)
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312501 | Pub. L. 86–523, § 8, as added Pub. L. 96–205, title VI, § 608(b)(2), Mar. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 92. | |
48 U.S.C. 180148 U.S.C. 190148 U.S.C. 1931The words “the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands” are omitted as obsolete. See note at 48 U.S.C. prec. 1681. For continued application of certain laws of the United States in certain cases, see the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America ( note), the Compact of Free Association between the Government of the United States of America and the Governments of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia ( note), and the Compact of Free Association between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Palau ( note).