BECAUSE the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation failed to act on the renominations of Zoning Board chair Tatiana Babauta and vice chairman, Francisco Aguon they are now considered reappointed.
On April 16, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres submitted the renominations of Babauta and Aguon to the delegation.
Title 2, Division 7 Section 7221 (e)(3) states, “The legislative delegation shall have 30 days from the date of being informed of an appointment by either the governor or the chairman of the delegation to confirm or reject such appointment. Failure to act within this time shall be deemed an acceptance of the appointment.”
The delegation chairman, Senate Floor Leader Vinnie Sablan, said the required documents needed by the delegation’s floor leader were received on April 28, 2021.
Sablan informed Zoning Administrator Geralyn Dela Cruz that because the delegation failed to act on the renominations of Babauta and Aguon within the 30-day period, they have been automatically confirmed.
“We hope that in the future, all…documents required for appointed members are submitted [in] a timely manner so as to allow us to properly and thoroughly act on them,” Sablan told Dela Cruz.
