Separate Consideration of Land Bills

(a)Every bill authorizing the sale, gift, disposal, transfer, or trade of government of Guam land (hereinafter called transfer of land or land transfer), and every bill authorizing the leasing of any government land for more than two

(2)years shall contain only matters reasonably related to one

(1)such transaction, and may not be considered with any other transaction or any unrelated matters, unless the particular transaction is a transfer or trade which involves the taking by the government of Guam of more than one privately-owned lot at essentially the same time for the same public purpose and project, in which case the bill may contain all matters related to that transfer or trade. No authorization for such land lease or land transfer may be considered as a “rider” or amendment to another bill, and neither may any unrelated amendment or “rider” be considered by the Legislature on any bill which authorizes the lease or transfer of land.

(b)No such bill authorizing the transfer of land or leasing of land may be considered by the Legislature on third reading unless accompanied by two

(2)appraisals on all land concerned, appraised for highest and best use regardless of zoning, from two separate licensed real estate appraisers, one

(1)of which appraisals is not more than twelve

(12)months old, and which appraisals are paid for by the transferee. If the transferee is the government of Guam by virtue of exercising its eminent domain power or similar action for specific and identified public benefit, the appraisals, surveys, maps, and recordation shall be paid by the government of Guam. The private land owner shall sign a statement that the person agrees that his paying for the appraisals does not in any way obligate the Legislature nor the government of Guam to approve the transfer. One

(1)of the appraisers shall be selected by the Department of Land Management and the other by the private landowner. The average of the two

(2)appraisals may be used by the Legislature as the value for the transfer or trade.

(c)Any proposed lease, sub-leases, requests to exchange land or purchase any land owned in the name of the government of Guam to the federal government or any agent of the federal government shall require the approval of I Liheslatura. COL1312018 CH. 2 STATUTES