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1 GCA § 1800

Requirement of Approval by I Liheslatura [the

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 1 — General Provisions
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Legislature] for Privatization. No office, department, agency, institution, board, bureau, commission, council, authority, committee of territorial government, branch, or the Guam Visitors Bureau, of the government of Guam may privatize any function or transfer any real property of the government of Guam without the approval of I Liheslatura [the Legislature]. Any plan or action taken by an office, department, instrumentality, agency, institution, board, bureau, commission, council, authority, committee of territorial government, branch, or the Guam Visitors Bureau purporting to privatize any function or transfer any real property of the government of Guam shall be transmitted to I Liheslatura [the Legislature] which, by statute, may amend, approve, or disapprove the plan or the action taken within forty-five

(45)days or said plan or action shall be deemed approved.

§ The story of this section

  1. Enacted by P.L. 19-5 § 125 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
  2. Amended by P.L. 27-34 § 3 — introduced as Bill 83-27

Interpreted by the courts:

  • 2003 Guam 13Vicente C. Pangelinan and Joseph C. Wesley, v. Carl T.C. Gutierrez, Governor, John F. Tarantino, Attorney General, James (2003) · per Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood, J. · cited at ¶7
  • 2004 Guam 16Vicente C. Pangelinan and Joseph C. Wesley, Plaintiffs-Appellants,vs. Carl T.C. Gutierrez, Governor, John F. Tarantino, (2004) · per Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood, J. · cited at ¶33

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.