1 GCA § 1606
Powers of the Compiler of Laws Relative to Revision
View official PDF ↗In preparing the Guam Code Annotated, the Guam Administrative Rules and Regulations, court reports and other publications of the Office, the Compiler of Laws may:
(a)Number and renumber chapters, sections and parts of sections;
(b)Rearrange sections so that they fit harmoniously within the publication being prepared;
(c)Change reference numbers renumbered chapters, parts, or sections; to agree with
(d)Substitute the proper selection or chapter numbers for the terms ‘the preceding section’, ‘this act’, and like terms;
(e)Strike out figures where they are merely a repetition of written words;
(f)Change uniformity; and capitalization for the purposes of
(g)Correct manifest clerical errors or typographical errors.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 15-104 § 1 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 17-6 § 9 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 27-77 § 1 — introduced as Bill 49-27 · introduced by F. Randall Cunliffe
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2020 Guam 14 — DFS GUAM L.P., Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant vs. The A.B. Won Pat International Airport Authority, Guam, Defendant- (2020) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶20
- 2020 Guam 20 — DFS Guam L.P., Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. The A.B. Won Pat International Airport Authority, Guam, Defendant- (2020) · per Katherine A. Maraman, J. · cited at ¶20
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.