Title 1 — Government
110 chapters · 1,290 sections in this title.
1 CMC § 8345 Occupational Disability Benefits
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8345. Occupational Disability Benefits. (a) Any member who becomes totally and permanently disabled for service from an occupational cause shall receive an annuity equal to 50 percent of the salary such member was receiving at t…
1 CMC § 8346 Nonoccupational Disability Benefits
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8346. Nonoccupational Disability Benefits. Any member with at least five years of membership service who becomes totally and permanently disabled for service from nonoccupational causes shall receive the same benefits as those p…
1 CMC § 8347 Disability: Administrative Provisions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8347. Disability: Administrative Provisions. (a) A member shall be considered totally and perm anently disabled after the board receives writt en certification by at least t wo licensed and practic ing physicians selected by the…
1 CMC § 8348 Benefits: Death Prior to Retirement Without Survivor Benefits
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8348. Benefits: Death Prior to Retirement Without Survivor Benefits. Upon death of a member occurring before his or her retirement on a retirement annuity, leaving no persons eligible for survivor annuities as provided herein, t…
1 CMC § 8349 Benefits: Death After Retirement Without Survivor Benefits
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8349. Benefits: Death After Retirement Without Survivor Benefits. Upon death of a member while in receipt of a service retirement annuity or disability retirement annuity, leaving no person entitled to survivor annuities as prov…
1 CMC § 8350 Benefits: Survivor Annuities for Class I Members
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8350. Benefits: Survivor Annuities for Class I Members. Upon death of a class I member while in service having completed at least 18 months of membership service, or death of a class I member who is in a receipt of a disability …
1 CMC § 8351 Benefits: Survivor Annuity Rate Formula for Class I Members
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8351. Benefits: Survivor Annuity Rate Formula for Class I Members. The annual survivor annuity payable for class I members shall be as follows: (a) Spouse. The basic annual survivor annuity shall be equal to 50 percent of the ad…
1 CMC § 8352 Benefits: Survivor Annuities for Class II Members
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8352. Benefits: Survivor Annuities for Class II Members. (a) Upon death of a class II member while in service, having completed at least three years of membership service, if a surviving spouse or minor children survive the memb…
1 CMC § 8353 Benefits: Survivor Annuity Rate Formula for Class II Members
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8353. Benefits: Survivor Annuity Rate Formula for Class II Members. (a) Spouse. The basic annual survivor annuity for spouses of class II members shall be equal to 50 percent of the disability or service retirement annuity earne…
1 CMC § 8354 Benefit Improvement for Class II Members
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8354. Benefit Improvement for Class II Members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, class II members and survivors will receive the greater of any benefit they are entitled to under class II eligibility and benefit…
1 CMC § 8355 Contingency Benefit
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8355. Contingency Benefit. If it is determined that a class I or class II member would have been eligible for a benefit under the Northern Mariana Islands Social Security System or United States Old Age, Survivor and Disability …
1 CMC § 8356 Benefits: Refund on Separation
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8356. Benefits: Refund on Separation. (a) Effective January 1, 2008, upon complete separation from service before a class I member shall have completed 15 years of contributing member service, the class I member may elect to rec…
1 CMC § 8357 Special Benefits for Governor and Lieutenant Governor
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8357. Special Benefits for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. (a) Special retirement annuities under this section shall only be available to former Governors and Lieutenant Governors of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Is…
1 CMC § 8358 Annual Cost of Living Increase
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8358. Annual Cost of Living Increase. (a) Eligible class I and class II members in a receipt of a service retirement or disability annuity and eligible surviving spouses may be provided an annual cost of living increase. The ann…
1 CMC § 8359 Cost of Living Adjustments for Elected Officials. [Repealed PL 8-31.]
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8359. Cost of Living Adjustments for Elected Officials. [Repealed.] Source: PL 8-31, § 13 (repealing PL 7-39, § 10).
1 CMC § 8360 Future Benefit Increases Required to be Ratified by Referendum
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8360. Future Benefit Increases Required to be Ratified by Referendum. If there is enacted hereafter any changes that increase directly or indirectly the benefits to participants in the defined benefit plan of the Northern Marian…
1 CMC § 8531 Use of Office, Staff or Employees of Public Office
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8531. Use of Office, Staff or Employees of Public Office. A public official or public employee shall not use the public official or public employee’s office, staff or employees of the public official or public employee’s office …
1 CMC § 8532 Restraints on Use of Public Position to Obtain Private Benefit
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8532. Restraints on Use of Public Position to Obtain Private Benefit. (a) A public official or public employee shall not use or attempt to use the public position to obtain private financial gain, contract, employment, license, …
1 CMC § 8533 Restraints on Use of Public Position to Obtain Benefits for Business or Social Acquaintances
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8533. Restraints on Use of Public Position to Obtain Benefits for Business or Social Acquaintances. (a) A public official or public employee shall not participate in a transaction involving the public official or employee’s gove…
1 CMC § 8534 Restraints on Use of Public Supplies, Services, Time, and Personnel for Campaign Activities
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8534. Restraints on Use of Public Supplies, Services, Time, and Personnel for Campaign Activities. (a) A public official or public employee shall not use public funds, time, personnel, or equipment for the public official or pub…
1 CMC § 8535 Restraints on Votes, Deliberations, and Discussions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8535. Restraints on Votes, Deliberations, and Discussions. (a) A public official shall not participate in, vote on, influence, or attempt to influence an official decision if the public official or business with which the public…
1 CMC § 8536 Appearance as an Advocate
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8536. Appearance as an Advocate. (a) A nonelected public official or public employee shall not appear as the advocate of another person before a Commonwealth governmental entity. (b) A public official or public employee may appe…
1 CMC § 8537 Appearance as an Attorney
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8537. Appearance as an Attorney. (a) A public official or public employee shall not appear as an attorney for another person before a Commonwealth governmental entity. (b) A public official or public employee may appear in an ad…
1 CMC § 8538 Representation for a Former Client
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8538. Representation for a Former Client. A public official or public employee shall not provide formal or informal representation for a client, constituent, or other person whom the public official or public employee has repres…
1 CMC § 8539 Partnership with a Person who Provides Representation Before Government
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8539. Partnership with a Person who Provides Representation Before Government. A public official or public employee shall not have a formal or informal business partnership with a person who provides representation before a Comm…
1 CMC § 8540 Use of an Agent to Perform Prohibited Acts
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8540. Use of an Agent to Perform Prohibited Acts. A public official or public employee shall not authorize or request another person to perform an act on the public official or employee’s behalf that the public official or emplo…
1 CMC § 8541 Representation by a Public Member of a Board, Commission, or Council
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8541. Representation by a Public Member of a Board, Commission, or Council. (a) A public member of a board, commission, or council may represent a client or constituent before a Commonwealth governmental entity if the member fil…
1 CMC § 8542 Restraint from Deliberation Where Contract Conflict is Present
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8542. Restraint from Deliberation Where Contract Conflict is Present. A public official or public employee shall not participate in obtaining or granting a public contract in which the official or employee or a member of the off…
1 CMC § 8543 Postemployment Restrictions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8543. Postemployment Restrictions. (a) No former public official or public employee shall assist or represent any person other than the Commonwealth in any judicial, legislative, or administrative proceeding involving the Common…
1 CMC § 8544 Negotiating for Nongovernment Employment
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8544. Negotiating for Nongovernment Employment. A public official or public employee of the Commonwealth government may not participate through discussion, decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice…
1 CMC § 8545 Limitation of Actions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8545. Limitation of Actions. The statute of limitations for bringing an administrative or judicial action pursuant to this chapter shall be five years. Source: PL 8-11, § 1 (§ 8445).
1 CMC § 9301 Lottery Commission: Established
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9301. Lottery Commission: Established. There is in the Commonwealth government a Commonwealth Lottery Commission, which shall supervise, organize, and operate a public lottery in the Commonwealth at the earliest practicab…
1 CMC § 9302 Lottery Commission: Composition
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9302. Lottery Commission: Composition. The commission shall consist of: (a) The Director of Finance or his designee. (b) The Attorney General or his designee. (c) The Director of Commerce or his designee. (d) The Commissi…
1 CMC § 9303 Lottery Commission: Procedures
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9303. Lottery Commission: Procedures. A majority of the members of the commission constitute a quorum. No official business of the commission may be conducted without a quorum being present, and no official action may be …
1 CMC § 9304 Lottery Commission: Executive Secretary
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9304. Lottery Commission: Executive Secretary. (a) The Director of Finance or his designee shall be the Executive Secretary of the commission. The Executive Secretary shall be responsible for the administration of this ch…
1 CMC § 9305 Lottery Commission: Duties and Responsibilities
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9305. Lottery Commission: Duties and Responsibilities. The Commonwealth Lottery Commission has the following duties and responsibilities: (a) To keep records of all official actions, expenditures, funds and revenues recei…
1 CMC § 9306 Lottery Commission: Rules and Regulations
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9306. Lottery Commission: Rules and Regulations. The Commonwealth Lottery Commission shall promulgate regulations in the manner prescribed by law providing for the following: (a) The type of lottery and the manner in whic…
1 CMC § 9307 Lottery Commission: Prize Allotment
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9307. Lottery Commission: Prize Allotment. There shall be reserved and deposited in the Commonwealth Lottery FundPrize Trust account, to be apportioned for payment of prizes to the winners, such set amount, minimum balanc…
1 CMC § 9308 Lottery Commission: Reports of the Executive Secretary
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9308. Lottery Commission: Reports of the Executive Secretary. The Executive Secretary shall make a monthly report to the Governor and the legislature. The monthly report shall include the total lottery revenues, prize dis…
1 CMC § 9309 Lottery Commission: Abuse and Corrections of Lottery Laws and Regulations
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9309. Lottery Commission: Abuse and Corrections of Lottery Laws and Regulations. (a) The commission shall report immediately to the Governor and the legislature any matter that requires immediate change in the laws of the…
1 CMC § 9310 Lottery Commission: Power to Contract
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9310. Lottery Commission: Power to Contract. The commission may enter into contracts for the supervision, organization, and operation of the lottery, or any part thereof, and into contracts for the promotion of the lotter…
1 CMC § 9311 Lottery Commission: Personnel
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9311. Lottery Commission: Personnel. The commission shall use such personnel as necessary from the Department of Finance or shall contract for such full-time or part-time personnel as necessary to implement this chapter. …
1 CMC § 9312 Lottery Commission: Compelling of Testimony and Records
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9312. Lottery Commission: Compelling of Testimony and Records. Upon petition of the commission, the Commonwealth Trial Court may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents, books…
1 CMC § 9313 Lottery Commission: Licenses
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9313. Lottery Commission: Licenses. (a) Before issuing a license, the commission shall consider factors such as: (1) The financial responsibility and security of the person and his or her business activity; (2) The approp…
1 CMC § 9314 Lottery Commission: Payment of Prizes
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9314. Lottery Commission: Payment of Prizes. The right of any person to a prize is not assignable, except that payment of any prize may be paid to the estate of a deceased prize winner or to a person pursuant to an approp…
1 CMC § 9315 Lottery Commission: Unclaimed Prizes
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9315. Lottery Commission: Unclaimed Prizes. The commission shall establish the time and manner in which prize winners are to claim their prizes. If a claim is not made for the money within the time so established, all rig…
1 CMC § 9316 Lottery Commission: Delivery of Funds
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9316. Lottery Commission: Delivery of Funds. The commission shall establish procedures and regulations for the collection of funds raised by the lottery, and for regular reporting and accountings thereof. Source: PL 3-60,…
1 CMC § 9317 Commonwealth Lottery Fund
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9317. Commonwealth Lottery Fund. (a) A special fund to be known as the “Commonwealth Lottery Fund” is hereby created which shall be divided into three accounts: (1) A Prize Trust account; (2) An Administration account; an…
1 CMC § 9318 Use of Commonwealth Lottery Fund
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9318. Use of Commonwealth Lottery Fund. If a Commonwealth Lottery Fund-Prize Trust account is established, the commission may draw from the funds deposited pursuant to 1 CMC § 9307 those sums of money needed to pay prizes…
1 CMC § 9319 Compensation of Commission Members
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9319. Compensation of Commission Members. Each member of the commission shall receive the sum of $20 for attendance at any meeting of the commission, and shall be reimbursed for actual travel, subsistence and out-of-pocke…