Definitions

(a)Commission means Guam Territorial Seashore Protection Commission.

(b)Board means the Board of Directors of the Commission.

(c)Seashore Reserve means that land and water area of Guam extending seaward to the ten

(10)fathom contour, including all islands within the Government's jurisdiction except Cabras Island and those Villages wherein residences have been constructed along the shoreline prior to the effective date of the Seashore Act, and extending inland to the nearer of the following points:

(1)From the mean high water line for a distance on a horizontal plane of ten

(10)meters.

(2)From the mean high water line to the inland edge of the nearest public right-of-way.

(d)Development means, on land, in or under water, the placement or erection of any solid material or structure; discharge of disposal of any dredged material or of any gaseous, liquid, solid, or thermal waste; grading, removing, dredging, mining, or extraction of any materials; change in the density or intensity of use of land, including, but not limited to, subdivision of land and any other division of land including lot splits; change in the intensity of use of water, ecology related thereto, or of access thereto; construction or reconstruction, demolition, or alteration of the size of any structure, including any facility of any private, public, or municipal utility, and the removal of major vegetation. COL070307 CH. 63 TERRITORIAL S EASHORE PROTECTION ACT OF 1974

(e)Improved residential property means a detached, noncommercial residential dwelling, the construction of which was begun before September 1, 1972, together with so much of the land on which the dwelling is situated, the said land being in the same ownership as the dwelling, as the Commission shall designate to be reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of the dwelling for the sole purpose of noncommercial residential use, together with any structures accessory to the dwelling which are situated on the land so designated.

(f)Person includes any individual, organization, partnership, and corporation, including any utility and any agency of federal, territorial, and local government.

(g)Plan means the Guam Seashore Reserve Plan.

(h)Sea means the Pacific Ocean or the Philippines Sea.