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12 GCA § 5127

Testimony Admissible in Eminent Domain Proceedings to

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 12 — Autonomous Agencies
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Fix Compensation. In any proceedings in eminent domain to fix or assess just compensation, evidence or testimony bearing upon the following matters shall be admissible, in addition to evidence or testimony otherwise admissible, and shall be considered in fixing such compensation:

(a)Any use, condition, occupancy or operation of such property, which is unlawful or violates or is subject to elimination, abatement, prohibition or correction, under any law or regulatory measure, in Guam, as being unsafe, substandard, unsanitary or otherwise contrary to the public health, safety, morals or welfare.

(b)The effect on the value of such property of any such use, condition, occupancy or operation or of the elimination, abatement, prohibition or correction of any such use, condition, occupancy or operation.

(c)Testimony or evidence that any public agency or officer charged with the duty so to do has rendered, made or issued any judgment, decree, order, determination or finding for the abatement, prohibition, elimination or correction of any such use, condition, occupancy or operation, which official action shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and character of such use, condition, occupancy or operation, but shall not be a condition precedent to the admissibility of the evidence or testimony described in Subsections

(a)and (b), above.

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