Title 1 — Government
110 chapters · 1,290 sections in this title.
1 CMC § 7850 Penalties; Failure to Make Proper Audit; Making False Audit; Failure to Produce Documents or Information
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 7: PLANNING, BUDGETING AND AUDITING § 7850. Penalties; Failure to Make Proper Audit; Making False Audit; Failure to Produce Documents or Information. (a) All agencies shall enter into their public record sufficient information for a proper audit, and …
1 CMC § 7851 Exclusion from Government Service
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 7: PLANNING, BUDGETING AND AUDITING § 7851. Exclusion from Government Service. Any person who is convicted under a prosecution pursuant to 1 CMC § 7847 shall be prohibited from working for the government of the Commonwealth for a period of 10 years fr…
1 CMC § 8141 Prohibited Activities: Discriminatory Practices
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8141. Prohibited Activities: Discriminatory Practices. No person holding any position in the civil service shall be favored or discriminated against on account of age, race, sex, religion, political affiliation, or place of orig…
1 CMC § 8142 Prohibited Activities: Political Activities
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8142. Prohibited Activities: Political Activities. (a) No person in the civil service shall: (1) Use official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof; (2) Use offici…
1 CMC § 8143 Prohibited Activities: Wrongful Certification of Payrolls
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8143. Prohibited Activities: Wrongful Certification of Payrolls. (a) No disbursing or certifying officer shall make or approve or take any part in making or approving any payment for personal service to any person holding a posi…
1 CMC § 8144 Prohibited Activities: Wrongful Payments
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8144. Prohibited Activities: Wrongful Payments. (a) Any citizen may maintain a suit to restrain a disbursing officer from making any payments of any salary or compensation to any person whose appointment or employment has not be…
1 CMC § 8145 Other Prohibited Activities
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8145. Other Prohibited Activities. (a) No recommendation of any person who applies for examination or appointment to any office or position under the provisions of this part which may be given by an elected official of the Commo…
1 CMC § 8151 Legislative Intent and Findings
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8151. Legislative Intent and Findings. It is the intent of this article to insulate government employees from being intimidated and harassed by threats to their employment security from political pressure relative to public elec…
1 CMC § 8152 Coercion of Public Employees for Political Purposes Made Unlawful
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8152. Coercion of Public Employees for Political Purposes Made Unlawful. (a) “Government employee” means any person employed by a branch, agency, department, commission, board, authority or public corporation of the Commonwealth…
1 CMC § 8153 Other Remedies
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8153. Other Remedies. (a) In addition to, independent of, and irrespective of the criminal penalties prescribed by 1 CMC § 8152(b), any person who has been the victim of political coercion as described in 1 CMC § 8152(b) may rec…
1 CMC § 8241 Short Title
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8241. Short Title. This chapter may be cited as the 1984 Compensation Adjustments Act. Source: PL 4-32, § 1. Commission Comment: PL 4-32 took effect April 1, 1985.
1 CMC § 8242 Purpose
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8242. Purpose. This chapter establishes uniform and consistent salaries for top policy-making appointed officials. Source: PL 4-32, § 1, modified.
1 CMC § 8243 Definitions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8243. Definitions. (a) “Employee” includes full-time and part-time personnel, and employees of federal programs who receive their paychecks from the Commonwealth Government. “Employee” does not include a fund custodian pursuant …
1 CMC § 8244 Compensation of Certain Elected Officials
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8244. Compensation of Certain Elected Officials. (a) The Governor shall receive an annual salary of $120,000 and the Lieutenant Governor an annual salary of $100,000. (b) The mayors of an island or a group of islands shall recei…
1 CMC § 8245 Compensation of Certain Appointed Officials
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8245. Compensation of Certain Appointed Officials. The following appointed positions within the Commonwealth government shall be paid base annual salaries as follows: (a) Department director/activity head: Title Secretary, Commu…
1 CMC § 8246 Compensation of the Executive Directors of Government Corporations, Semiautonomous and Autonomous Agencies
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8246. Compensation of the Executive Directors of Government Corporations, Semiautonomous and Autonomous Agencies. The executive directors (the top administrative officers) of government corporations, as defined in 1 CMC § 7103(n…
1 CMC § 8247 Compensation of Board Members of Government Corporations and Councils
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8247. Compensation of Board Members of Government Corporations and Councils. (a) The rate of compensation for meetings attended for members of all government corporations, councils, commissions, agencies, including but not limit…
1 CMC § 8248 Government Salary Ceiling
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8248. Government Salary Ceiling. (a) Except as provided by law, no employee of the Commonwealth government shall receive an annual salary of more than $65,175. (b) Medical professionals, whose primary responsibilities include gi…
1 CMC § 8249 No Overtime. [Repealed by PL 8-13.]
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8249. No Overtime. [Repealed.] Source: PL 8-13, § 4 (repealing PL 4-32, § 11, as amended by PL 5-31, § 405 and PL 6-3, § 304). Commission Comment: PL 8-13, § 4 repealed former subsection (a) of this section; it made no reference…
1 CMC § 8250 Exemptions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8250. Exemptions. (a) The salary provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a nonelected employee holding a position on April 1, 1985, where the employee receives a salary higher than the salary established by this chapter fo…
1 CMC § 8251 [Removed]
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8251. [Removed.]
1 CMC § 8252 [Removed]
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8252. [Removed.]
1 CMC § 8253 Filling Positions Vacated By a Retiring Employee
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8253. Filling Positions Vacated By a Retiring Employee. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all department, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth Government shall in good faith fill any vacant FTE position tha…
1 CMC § 8361 Contributions to Fund: By Member
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8361. Contributions to Fund: By Member. (a) Each class I member of the fund shall contribute 6.5 percent of the salary earned and accruing to the member in fiscal year 2006 and 2007. Beginning on the first day of fiscal year 200…
1 CMC § 8362 Contributions to Fund: By Government
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8362. Contributions to Fund: By Government. (a) The government shall make contributions to the fund each year on an actuarially funded basis toward the annuities and benefits provided for this part. These contributions shall be …
1 CMC § 8363 Retirement Fund’s Contribution for Life Insurance
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8363. Retirement Fund’s Contribution for Life Insurance. (a) Annuitants shall be provided an option to continue their Commonwealth government life insurance coverage under the same group terms and conditions as that government c…
1 CMC § 8364 Retirement Fund’s Contribution for Health Insurance
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8364. Retirement Fund’s Contribution for Health Insurance. (a) Annuitants shall be provided with an option, to be exercised within six months of the date of retirement, to continue their Commonwealth government health insurance …
1 CMC § 8365 Tax Revenue. [Repealed]
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8365. Tax Revenue. [Repealed.] [Repealed.] Source: PL 8-31, § 14, modified; repealed by PL 19-36 § 3 (Feb. 18, 2016). Commission Comment: See 4 CMC § 1803.
1 CMC § 8366 Actuarial Study
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8366. Actuarial Study. The Northern Mariana Islands Retirement Fund (NMIRF) shall, no later than fifteen days after this Act becomes law, commission an actuarial study to determine the new employer contribution rate for the CNMI…
1 CMC § 8367 Benefits: Transfer and Direct Roll-Over to the Defined Contribution Plan
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8367. Benefits: Transfer and Direct Roll-Over to the Defined Contribution Plan. (a) A member, who is eligible to participate in the Defined Contribution Plan under 1 CMC § 8458 or other applicable law, may submit a written reque…
1 CMC § 8368 Employer Retirement Contribution
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8368. Employer Retirement Contribution. (a) Notwithstanding 1 CMC § 8362 or any other provision of law, the Public School System (PSS) and employers of employees funded by the General Fund shall remit a retirement contribution o…
1 CMC § 8369 NMI Retirement Fund
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8369. NMI Retirement Fund. Notwithstanding any law or regulation to the contrary, the NMI Retirement Fund Board and Administrator shall, upon receipt of the CNMI government employer contribution as stated under 1 CMC § 8362(g), …
1 CMC § 8551 Offering, Receiving and Soliciting Gifts or Favors
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8551. Offering, Receiving and Soliciting Gifts or Favors. (a) No person shall give to any public official or public employee, or to the spouse or minor child of either of them, and none of them shall solicit or accept, any anony…
1 CMC § 8552 Solicitation or Receipt of Money for Advice or Assistance
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8552. Solicitation or Receipt of Money for Advice or Assistance. No public official or public employee, or the spouse or minor child of said official or employee, shall solicit or accept any money or other thing of value includi…
1 CMC § 8553 Restrictions on Acceptance of Honoraria
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8553. Restrictions on Acceptance of Honoraria. (a) A public official or public employee shall not accept an honorarium of more than $1,000, excluding amounts for actual travel and subsistence expenses for the public official or …
1 CMC § 8554 Limitation of Actions
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8554. 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 (§ 8453).
1 CMC § 9411 Title
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9411. Title. This chapter may be cited as the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Source: PL 4-25, § 1. Commission Comment: PL 4-25 took effect December 18, 1984.
1 CMC § 9412 Policy
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9412. Policy. It is declared a policy of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that the public is entitled to know what private persons or interest groups influence enactment of laws and formulation of public p…
1 CMC § 9413 Definition
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9413. Definition. A lobbyist is a person who by himself or herself or through any agent, employee, or other person in any manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, solicits, collects or receives any money or any other th…
1 CMC § 9414 Statement of Contribution and Expenditures
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9414. Statement of Contribution and Expenditures. Every lobbyist receiving any contribution or fee, or making any expenditures for any of the purposes designated in 1 CMC § 9413 shall file with the Board of Elections a cu…
1 CMC § 9415 Employment of Public Officials as Lobbyists
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9415. Employment of Public Officials as Lobbyists. It shall be unlawful for any person to employ, remunerate or compensate any elected official, appointed official or government employee as a lobbyist in any way whatsoeve…
1 CMC § 9416 Registration With Board of Elections
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9416. Registration With Board of Elections. Any person engaging in any activity described in 1 CMC § 9413 shall register as a lobbyist with the Board of Elections. Source: PL 4-25, § 6.
1 CMC § 9417 Public Auditor: Rules and Regulations
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9417. Public Auditor: Rules and Regulations. The Public Auditor shall promulgate such rules and regulations, pursuant to title 1, division 9 [1 CMC § 9101 et seq.] as he may determine are necessary to effectuate this chap…
1 CMC § 9418 Contingent Agreements Prohibited
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9418. Contingent Agreements Prohibited. No person may make any agreement under which compensation of any form is dependent upon passage or defeat of any legislation, or adoption or disapproval of any rule or decision by g…
1 CMC § 9419 Penalties
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS § 9419. Penalties. Failure to comply with this chapter by any person subject to its provisions is a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days or both such f…
1 CMC § 1501 Title
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 1: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH CHAPTER 5. Reapportionment Act of 1991. § 1501. Title. This chapter may be cited and shall be known as the Reapportionment Act of 1991. Source: PL 7-37, § 1 (§ 1501). Commission Comment: PL 7-37, which took effect September 17, 1…
1 CMC § 1502 Findings and Purpose
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 1: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH § 1502. Findings and Purpose. (a) In accordance with the mandate of N.M.I. Const. art. II, § 4(a), the legislature finds that based upon the increase in the population of the Commonwealth as reported by the Bureau of the Census, …
1 CMC § 1503 Increase in House Membership
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 1: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH § 1503. Increase in House Membership. Pursuant to N.M.I. Const. art. II, §§ 3(a) and (b), and 4(a), the membership of the House of Representatives is increased from 15 to 18 by increasing the number of representatives from Saipan…
1 CMC § 1504 Saipan Election District
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 1: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH § 1504. Saipan Election District. For the purpose of electing 16 members of the House of Representatives from Saipan and the islands north of Saipan, Saipan shall be divided into the following four election districts: First Distr…
1 CMC § 2251 Public School System
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TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 2: EXECUTIVE BRANCH § 2251. Public School System. There is hereby established as a nonprofit corporation, the Public School System, which shall be the state education agency for preschool, elementary and secondary programs. The Public School System sh…