21 GCA § 60112
Legislative Approval Required
View official PDF ↗(a)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, government-owned real property shall not be sold, leased, subleased, exchanged or otherwise transferred without the prior approval of I Liheslatura (the Legislature) by duly enacted legislation, which specifically authorizes a particular sale, lease, exchange or transfer, and includes the real property description of the government-owned real property with particularity, and a Department of Land Management recorded map showing the alienated parcel and the remaining parcel of the original lot.
(b)Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the COL 7/27/2023 CH. 60 LAND MANAGEMENT government of Guam, its various departments and agencies, including autonomous or semiautonomous agencies, shall not purchase or enter into a lease, license, or sub-lease of property owned by the federal government, foreign governments, or subentities thereof, for a term in excess of five
(5)years, without the prior approval of I Liheslatura (the Legislature) by duly enacted legislation, which specifically authorizes a particular sale, lease, license, or sub-lease.
(c)This Section shall not apply to the Land for the Landless Program, or residential leases, subsistence agricultural leases and subsistence aquaculture leases by the Chamorro Land Trust Commission pursuant to its rules and regulations, but shall apply to any transfer to the federal government or any agent of the federal government of land owned in the name of the government of Guam, including, but not limited to, its autonomous agencies, public corporations, the Chamorro Land Trust Commission, and the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission.
§ The story of this section
- Enacted by P.L. 12-61 § 3 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 12-226 § 3 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 15-131 § 3 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Affected by P.L. 15-133 § 2 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Affected by P.L. 18-32 § 14 (bill & sponsor pending — earlier Legislature not yet ingested)
- Amended by P.L. 30-21 § 4 — introduced as Bill 43-30 · introduced by Judith P. Guthertz, DPA + 2 cosponsors
- Amended by P.L. 30-148 § 1 — introduced as Bill 370-30 · introduced by Vicente C. Pangelinan + 2 cosponsors
- Affected by P.L. 33-78 § 2 · introduced by Thomas C. Ada + 14 cosponsors · lead sponsor unverified
- Affected by P.L. 37-9 § 2 — introduced as Bill 12-37 · introduced by Therese M. Terlaje + 9 cosponsorsWatch the public hearing · Feb 6, 2023
Interpreted by the courts:
- 2019 Guam 12 — Guam YTK Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Port Authority of Guam, Defendant-Appellant (2019) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J.
Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.