Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol

Officer Reserve.

(a)Creation. There is hereby created within the Department of Parks and Recreation of the government of Guam the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve Program, which shall be headed by the Director. The Director, subject to the advice and control of the Commission, shall be responsible for carrying out the purpose of this Section and shall have such additional duties as authorized herein, or as may be prescribed by the Commission.

(b)Functions and Duties. The general functions and duties of the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve shall be to provide backup, supplemental manpower for the provision of the park protection duties and services of the Department. The Director shall formulate a program whereby reservists of the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve shall adhere to the functions and duties herein prescribed. From time to time, the Director, with the consent of the Commission, shall review and revise the functions of the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve Program to ensure an amicable discharge of responsibilities and duties, acknowledging the fact that a reservist’s role is an extension of the duties of regular personnel. COL1/11/2022 CH. 77 PARKS & RECREATION

(c)Recruitment. The Director shall recruit, on an entirely volunteer basis, local residents who desire to make available their services to assist the Department of Parks and Recreation in carrying out its law enforcement duties and emergency functions. The Director, with the concurrence of the Commission, shall further promulgate rules and regulations consistent with the requirements of hiring regular Territorial Park Patrol Officers.

(d)Training, Equipment, and Maintenance Records. Training for reservists of the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve shall be conducted pursuant to standards set forth by the Peace Officer Standards and Training

(POST)Commission in 17 GCA Chapter 51 and 27 GARR Chapter 3. Initial training requirements shall be identical to those required of Territorial Park Patrol Officers.

(e)Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reservist: Authority. When the reservists of the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve are rendering assistance to the Territoral Park Patrol Officers, such volunteers shall have the same powers, duties, rights, including coverage under the Worker’s Compensation Act, and privileges and immunities, as if they were paid full-time employees of the Department of Parks and Recreation, except that they shall earn recruitment credit for services performed as reservists.

(f)Allowance. Each reservist of the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve who successfully completes probationary requirements as established by the Director and who contributes a minimum of forty-two

(42)hours or more per month, shall receive an allowance of Five Hundred Dollars ($500) per month to defray the costs of maintenance of their equipment and uniforms. The Department of Parks and Recreation shall identify funds within the Department’s appropriations to satisfy the intent of this Section.

(g)Eligibility and Oath. No person shall be a volunteer reservist of the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve established under this Section who advocates a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the Government of the United States or Guam or the overthrow of any government in the United States by force, or who has been convicted of or is COL1/11/2022 CH. 77 PARKS & RECREATION under indictment or information charging any subversive act against the United States. Every reservist shall, upon entering his or her duties, take an oath, in writing, before a person authorized to administer oaths in Guam, which oath shall be substantially as follows: “I______________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the laws of Guam, against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter; and I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of Guam by force or violence.”

(h)Rules and Regulations: Recommendations. The Director is authorized and empowered to recommend to the Governor, with the concurrence of the Commission, for issuance as executive orders the making, amendment and recession of such orders, rules, and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Section. The Director shall also have the authority to amend and create rules and regulations to implement and maintain the Civilian Volunteer Territorial Park Patrol Officer Reserve through the Administrative Adjudication Law.