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10 GCA § 51110

Prohibited Solid Waste Activities

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 10 — Health and Safety
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(a)It shall be unlawful for any person to:

(1)Violate any provision of this Chapter or any rule, regulation, standard, or order issued pursuant to this Chapter;

(2)Own, operate or use a dump for the disposal of solid waste;

(3)Place, or allow to be placed, any solid waste upon the highways, public or private property contrary to the provisions of this Chapter;

(4)Manage solid waste facilities without a permit issued pursuant to this Chapter;

(5)Store, collect, transport, process, or dispose of solid waste in such a manner as to degrade the environment, create a public nuisance, create a health or safety hazard, or violate any provisions of this Chapter;

(6)Transport any solid waste in any vehicle in any street or highway unless adequate precautions are taken to prevent such solid waste from falling or from being dislodged from such vehicle upon any street, highway, or any other public or private property;

(7)Not immediately pick up and remove waste which has fallen off the vehicle they are operating during the course of transportation upon any street, highway or any other public or private property;

(8)No person shall destroy or attempt to destroy by burning, except as authorized by 10 GCA § 73113, any garbage, dead animals or other offensive substances, the burning of which may give off foul and noisome odor. Nothing in this Section shall preclude the burning of trees, brush, grass and other vegetable matter authorized by the Administrator.

(9)Improperly manage or operate a solid waste management facility.

(10)Improperly manage or operate a hazardous waste management facility.

(b)Each day of continued violation of this section or the provisions of this Chapter or rules and regulations authorized herein shall be deemed a separate offense or violation.

§ The story of this section

  1. Amended by P.L. 24-139 § 6 — introduced as Bill 495-24 · introduced by Anthony C. Blaz + 2 cosponsors
  2. Amended by P.L. 25-175 § 6 — introduced as Bill 478-25 · introduced by Joanne Brown
  3. Amended by P.L. 24-272 § 1 — introduced as Bill 520-24 · introduced by Mark C. Charfauros + 3 cosponsors

Interpreted by the courts:

  • 2000 Guam 11Vicente C. Pangelinan, Senator, and Joseph C. Wesley, Mayor, on behalf of themselves and> all those similarly situated, (2000) · per Peter C. Siguenza, J.
  • 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.
  • 2008 Guam 3Rossana San Miguel, Jose S.N. Chargualaf, Angelo M. Gombar, Anthony Duenas Leon Guerrero, Lawrence C. Portela, Tony A. Q (2008) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.

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