(a) No real property of a Samoan may be subject to sale under a writ of a court to satisfy any judgment other than a judgment foreclosing a valid mortgage, but the court may appoint a receiver to gather produce lying and being upon the property belonging to a Samoan debtor. Such receiver shall convert the same into cash for the purpose of satisfying any judgment.
(b) The remuneration to be paid to the receiver for his service shall be fixed by the court.
(c) For the purposes of this section “Samoan” includes American Samoans of at least one-half Samoan blood and persons born on other islands in the Pacific Ocean who are of at least one-half Polynesian, Melanesian or Micronesian blood and who reside in American Samoa.
History: 1962, PL 7-32; 1968 PL 10-66; readopted 1980, PL 16-88 § 1; 1982, PL 17-31, § 1.
Reviser’s Comment: The law dealing with alienation of land contained in the ASCA as recodified by the legislative reference bureau had been questioned as to whether the requirements of Art. I, § 3 and Art. II, § 9, American Samoa Constitution, had been fulfilled. Since the records were not available to answer the question, the Legislature passed PL 16-88 and PL 17-31 to ensure that the law dealing with alienation of land complies with the Constitution.