§ 8301. Purpose
TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 8: PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT § 8301. Purpose. The purpose of this part is to provide retirement security and other benefits to government employees, their spouses and dependents, and former governors and former lieutenant governors, and to provide for an actuarially sound, locally funded pension system pursuant to the Agreement of the Special Representative on Future United States Financial Assistance for the Northern Mariana Islands and in accord with constitutional provisions protecting the rights of government employees. Source: PL 6-17, § 8301. Commission Comment: PL 6-17, the “Northern Mariana Islands Retire- ment Fund Act of 1988,” took effect May 7, 1989. PL 6-17, ch. 8 § 83815. PL 6-17, ch. 1, § 8312 repealed and reenacted chapters 1-8 of this part (PL 1- 43, as amended). Public Law 17-82 (enacted on September 11, 2012) includes the follow- ing provision: Section 4. This Act is remedial in nature and therefore should be inter- preted and construed broadly consistent with the intent of this Act. It is intended that this Act supersede other provisions of Title I, Division 8, Part 3 which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. Accordingly, any provisions in this part which are inconsistent with PL 17-82 are superseded.
Source: CNMI Law Revision Commission