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10 GCA § 16110

Arrest and Prosecution When Experiencing or

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 10 — Health and Safety
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Reporting Opioid Overdoses.

(a)No individual shall be subject to arrest or prosecution for the possession of opioid if:

(1)Such individual in good faith, seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for himself if he is experiencing overdose or for another individual if such other individual is experiencing an overdose and another individual in good faith seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for such individual, by contemporaneously reporting such overdose;

(2)such individual remains at the scene of the overdose or at any alternative location to which he or the person requiring emergency medical attention has been transported until a law-enforcement officer responds to the report of an overdose. If no law-enforcement officer is present at the scene of the overdose or at the alternative location, then such individual shall cooperate with law enforcement as otherwise set forth herein;

(3)such individual identifies himself to the lawenforcement officer who responds to the report of the overdose; and

(4)The evidence for the prosecution of an offense enumerated in this subsection was obtained as a result of the individual seeking or obtaining emergency medical attention or rendering emergency care or assistance.

§ The story of this section

  1. Enacted by P.L. 37-2 § 1 — introduced as Bill 10-37 · introduced by Therese M. Terlaje + 11 cosponsors

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