Title 1 — Government
110 chapters · 1,290 sections in this title.
1 CMC § 30103 Disposition of Abandoned Property
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT § 30103 DIVISION 3: JUDICIAL BRANCH § 30103. Disposition of Abandoned Property. (a) Property is presumed abandoned if it is unclaimed by the apparent owner after the property is held by the judiciary one year after the property becomes payable or distributable…
1 CMC § 8451 Definitions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8451. Definitions. As used in this Chapter: (a) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund; (b) “Alternate payee” means the person for whom an amount has been separated into an accoun…
1 CMC § 8452 Applicability of Chapter
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8452. Applicability of Chapter. The provisions of this chapter apply only to members first hired on or after the effective date determined under § 8454, or to Class I and Class II members of the Northern Mariana Islands Retireme…
1 CMC § 8453 Chapter to be Liberally Construed; Purpose
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8453. Chapter to be Liberally Construed; Purpose. The provisions of this Chapter shall be liberally construed so as to provide a portable individual retirement account for public employees who are eligible to participate in the …
1 CMC § 8454 Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Established; Federal Qualification Requirements
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8454. Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Established; Federal Qualification Requirements. (a) A defined contribution retirement plan is established for employees of the Commonwealth. The defined contribution retirement plan is…
1 CMC § 8455 Administration of the Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8455. Administration of the Defined Contribution Retirement Plan. (a) Powers and Duties of the Administrator. The Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund through its Administrator appointed under § 8316 administers the plan. Th…
1 CMC § 8456 Membership in Defined Contribution Plan; Limiting Participation in the Defined Benefit Plan
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8456. Membership in Defined Contribution Plan; Limiting Participation in the Defined Benefit Plan. Beginning on the effective date determined under § 8454, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Northern Mariana Islands…
1 CMC § 8457 Participation in the Plan: Ineligible Persons
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8457. Participation in the Plan: Ineligible Persons. (a) The following persons shall not be eligible for membership: (1) Persons whose services are compensated on a fee basis. (2) Independent contractors. (3) Persons whose emplo…
1 CMC § 8458 Conditions for Transfer Into Defined Contribution Plan by Class I and Class II Members of the Defined Benefit Plan
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8458. Conditions for Transfer Into Defined Contribution Plan by Class I and Class II Members of the Defined Benefit Plan. (a) Class I Members With Less Than 10 Years Contributing Member Service. The Administrator shall identify …
1 CMC § 8459 Members’ Contributions; Mandatory
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8459. Members’ Contributions; Mandatory. (a) Each member shall contribute to the member’s individual account an amount equal to ten percent of the member’s compensation during the calendar year or a shortened year determined fro…
1 CMC § 8460 Employer Contributions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8460. Employer Contributions. (a) An employer shall contribute to each member’s individual account an amount equal to 4 percent of the member’s compensation during the calendar year or a shortened year determined from the date o…
1 CMC § 8461 Rollover Contributions and Distributions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8461. Rollover Contributions and Distributions. (a) An employee entering the plan may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the administrator, to have all or part of a direct rollover distribution from an eligible r…
1 CMC § 8462 Transmittal of Contributions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8462. Transmittal of Contributions. All contributions deducted in accordance with this chapter shall be transmitted to the plan for deposit in the trust fund as soon as administratively feasible, but in no event later than 15 da…
1 CMC § 8463 Limitations on Contributions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8463. Limitations on Contributions. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this plan, the annual additions to each member’s individual account under this plan and under all defined contribution plans of the employer required to…
1 CMC § 8464 Vesting
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8464. Vesting. (a) A participating member is immediately and fully vested in that member’s contributions and related earnings. Member’s contributions includes any rollover contributions made by the member. (b) A member shall be …
1 CMC § 8465 Investment of Individual Accounts
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8465. Investment of Individual Accounts. (a) The administrator shall provide a range of investment options and permit a participant to exercise investment control over the participant’s assets in the member’s individual account …
1 CMC § 8466 Distribution Election at Termination
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8466. Distribution Election at Termination. (a) A member who has been contributing into the plan for at least two years is eligible to elect distribution of the member’s account in accordance with this section 60 days after term…
1 CMC § 8467 Forms of Distribution
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8467. Forms of Distribution. (a) A participant may elect to receive the participant’s share of the individual account in a (1) Lump sum payment, which is a single payment of the entire balance in the account; (2) Periodic lump s…
1 CMC § 8468 Manner of Electing Distributions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8468. Manner of Electing Distributions. (a) Any election or any alteration or revocation of a prior election by a participant for any purpose under this plan shall be on forms or made in a manner prescribed for that purpose by t…
1 CMC § 8469 Distribution Requirements
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8469. Distribution Requirements. (a) Payments to a participant shall commence as soon as administratively feasible following the distribution commencement date. The distribution commencement date is the first date on which one o…
1 CMC § 8470 Designation of Beneficiary
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8470. Designation of Beneficiary. (a) Each participant shall have the right to designate a beneficiary and shall have the right, at any time, to revoke the designation or to substitute another beneficiary, subject to the followi…
1 CMC § 8471 Rights Under Qualified Domestic Relations Order
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8471. Rights Under Qualified Domestic Relations Order. (a) Notwithstanding the non-alienation provisions in § 8475(a), the administrator may direct that benefits be paid to someone other than a member or beneficiary under a vali…
1 CMC § 8472 Occupational Disability Benefits
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8472. Occupational Disability Benefits. (a) The administrator shall determine, from time to time, the employer contribution rate necessary to fund occupational disability benefits for members, and the employers of any members sh…
1 CMC § 8473 Occupational Death Benefit
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8473. Occupational Death Benefit. (a) The administrator shall determine, from time to time, the employer contribution rate necessary to fund occupational death benefits for members, and the employers of any members shall pay thi…
1 CMC § 8474 Amendment and Termination of Plan
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8474. Amendment and Termination of Plan. (a) The Commonwealth has the right to amend the plan at any time and from time to time, in whole or in part, including the right to make retroactive amendments referred to in 26 U.S.C. 40…
1 CMC § 8475 Exclusive Benefit
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8475. Exclusive Benefit. (a) The corpus or income of the assets held in trust as required by the plan may not be diverted or used for other than the exclusive benefit of the participants. (b) If plan benefits are provided throug…
1 CMC § 8476 Non-guarantee of Returns, Rates, or Benefit Amounts
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8476. Non-guarantee of Returns, Rates, or Benefit Amounts. The plan created by this chapter is a defined contribution plan, not a defined benefit plan. The amount of money in the account of a participant depends on the amount of…
1 CMC § 8477 Non-guarantee of Employment
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8477. Non-guarantee of Employment. The provisions of this chapter also are not a contract of employment between an employer and an employee, nor do they confer a right of an employee to be continued in the employment of an emplo…
1 CMC § 8478 Fraud
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8478. Fraud. A person who knowingly makes a false statement or falsifies, or permits to be falsified, a record of the plan, in an attempt to defraud the plan, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Source: PL 15-13, § 3 (8478).
1 CMC § 25101 Short Title
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 25101. Short Title. This Act may be cited as the “Disposition of Government Property Act of 2002.” Source: PL 13-46, § 1. Commission Comment: PL 13-46 took effect January 13, 2003. According to PL 13-46: Section 2. Findings and P…
1 CMC § 25102 Inventory and Auction
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 25102. Inventory and Auction. The Director of the CNMI Procurement and Supply Division shall take inventory of all surplus property belonging to and no longer needed by the government on an annual basis. Upon the Director’s recom…
1 CMC § 25103 Regulations
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 25103. Regulations. The Secretary of Finance shall promulgate regulations consistent with this Act. Source: PL 13-46, § 4.
1 CMC § 25201 Collection of Fines at the Ports of Entry
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 25201. Collection of Fines at the Ports of Entry. The Department of Finance specifically the Division of Customs is hereby vested with the authority to collect and keep all fines imposed on businesses and individuals at the ports…
1 CMC § 25202 Reporting Requirement
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 25202. Reporting Requirement. The Secretary of Finance in collaboration with the Director of the Division of Customs shall report, on the collection and expenditure of all fines collected pursuant to 1 CMC § 25201, on a quarterly…
1 CMC § 25301 The Establishment of the Settlement Fund Revolving Fund Account
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 25301. The Establishment of the Settlement Fund Revolving Fund Account. (a) There is hereby established within the Commonwealth Treasury a Settlement Fund Revolving Fund Account which shall be accounted for separately from the Ge…
1 CMC § 25302 The Establishment of the Bond Payment Revolving Fund Account
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 25302. The Establishment of the Bond Payment Revolving Fund Account. (a) There is hereby established within the Commonwealth Treasury a Bond Payment Revolving Fund Account which shall be accounted for separately from the General …
1 CMC § 2551 Department of Finance
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2551. Department of Finance. There is in the Commonwealth government a Department of Finance, to be headed by a Director of Finance. Source: PL 1-8, tit. 1, ch. 11, § 1, modified. Commission Comment: Executive Order 94-3, the “Se…
1 CMC § 2552 Department of Finance: Director: Appointment
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2552. Department of Finance: Director: Appointment. The Director of Finance shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. No person may be appointed as Director of Finance who does not possess prof…
1 CMC § 2553 Department of Finance: Duties and Responsibilities
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2553. Department of Finance: Duties and Responsibilities. The duties and responsibilities of the Department of Finance include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) To collect and deposit all locally raised revenues from an…
1 CMC § 2554 Department of Finance: Uniform Accounting
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2554. Department of Finance: Uniform Accounting. The Department of Finance, with the concurrence of the Public Auditor, shall establish a uniform system of accounts. An accrual method of accounting that meets generally accepted p…
1 CMC § 2555 Department of Finance: Financial Reports
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2555. Department of Finance: Financial Reports. At least annually the Director of Finance shall issue a detailed report on the financial affairs of the Commonwealth and submit copies to the Governor, legislature and Public Audito…
1 CMC § 2556 Department of Finance: Bonding
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2556. Department of Finance: Bonding. The Director of the Department of Finance, the Commonwealth Treasurer and other officials designated by the Director of Finance or the treasurer shall be bonded. Source: PL 1-8, tit. 1, ch. 1…
1 CMC § 2557 Department of Finance: Rules and Regulations
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2557. Department of Finance: Rules and Regulations. The Department of Finance may adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with law regarding those matters within its jurisdiction and to provide penalties both civil and crimi…
1 CMC § 2558 Department of Finance: Staff
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2558. Department of Finance: Staff. The Department of Finance may employ staff as required to assist it in performing its duties, subject to budgetary appropriation. Source: PL 1-8, tit. 1, ch. 11, § 9, modified. Commission Comme…
1 CMC § 2561 Department of Finance: Commonwealth Treasury
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2561. Department of Finance: Commonwealth Treasury. There is in the Department of Finance the Commonwealth Treasury, headed by the Commonwealth Treasurer. Source: PL 1-8, tit. 1, ch. 11, § 6, modified. Commission Comment: With re…
1 CMC § 2571 Division of Revenue and Taxation: Established
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2571. Division of Revenue and Taxation: Established. There is in the Department of Finance a Division of Revenue and Taxation headed by a chief who shall be within the civil service. No person may be Chief of Revenue and Taxation…
1 CMC § 2572 Random Inspection of Establishments and Enforcement
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2572. Random Inspection of Establishments and Enforcement. The Department of Finance, Division of Revenue and Taxation is hereby required to make periodic inspections of sales receipts in the CNMI and shall be governed by the fol…
1 CMC § 2581 Surplus Property Agency: Designation
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2581. Surplus Property Agency: Designation. The Department of Finance is designated as the “state agency” for the purposes of Subsection 203(j) [40 U.S.C. § 484(j)] of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949,…
1 CMC § 2582 Surplus Property Agency: Functions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2582. Surplus Property Agency: Functions. The Director of Finance may: (a) Acquire from the United States of America any property allocated to the Department of Finance pursuant to the federal act; (b) Warehouse property so acqui…
1 CMC § 2583 Surplus Property Agency: Authority to Acquire, Hold, and Improve Property
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2583. Surplus Property Agency: Authority to Acquire, Hold, and Improve Property. Subject to the availability of funds in the Special Surplus Property Fund provided for in 1 CMC § 2590, the Director of Finance may acquire and hold…