10 GCA § 75100
Definition
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(a)Law enforcement personnel, employee or position means the following:
(1)All sworn members of the Guam Police Department, including the Chief of Police;
(2)All sworn members of the Guam Fire Department, including the Fire Chief;
(3)All officers of the Department of Corrections including the Director;
(4)All Customs Officers of the Customs and Quarantine Agency, including the Director;
(5)Employees of the Department of Youth Affairs who are engaged in juvenile detention and rehabilitation, and work rehabilitation work as designated by the Director of the Department of Youth Affairs, including the Director;
(6)All Tax Agents Enforcement Officers of the Department of Revenue and Taxation, the Attorney General, Deputy and Assistant Attorney Generals, and Attorney General Investigators;
(7)All security officers employed by the government of Guam, or performing security work for the government of Guam pursuant to their employer’s contract, including, but not limited COL12302011 CH. 75 DRUG T ESTING to, lock-up guards, security for the A. B. Won Pat International Airport Authority, and security for the J.D. Leon Guerrero Commercial Port Authority of Guam.
(8)All Deputy Marshals of the Unified Guam Judiciary, including the Chief;
(9)All Probation Officers and Alternative Sentencing Officers of the Unified Guam Judiciary, including the Chief Probation Officer;
(10)All Territorial Park Patrol Officers of the Department of Parks and Recreation, including the Superintendent;
(11)All Conservation Officers of the Department of Agriculture, including the Chief;
(12)All J.D. Leon Guerrero Commercial Port Authority Police Officers, including the Chief;
(13)All A.B. Won Pat International Airport Authority Police Officers, including the Chief; and
(14)All Firefighters of the A.B. Won Pat International Airport Authority, including the Chief.
(b)Drug test means a urinalysis test administered under approved conditions and procedures to detect drugs.
(c)Supervisor means law enforcement personnel assigned to a position having day-to-day responsibility for supervising subordinates, or responsible for commanding a work element.
(d)Reasonable objective basis means an apparent state of facts and/or circumstances found to exist upon inquiry by the supervisor, which would induce a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to suspect the employee was under the influence or using drugs/narcotics; or a reasonable ground for suspicion in the existence of facts or circumstances warranting an order to submit a drug test.
(e)Controlled substance means a drug, substance or immediate precursor in Schedules I through II of 9 GCA Chapter 67, Article 2.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 19-44 § 4 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 31-28 § 3 — introduced as Bill 63-31 · introduced by Adolpho B. Palacios, Sr + 2 cosponsors
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.