Definitions

In this Chapter:

(a)Employee means a person employed in the Executive Branch of the government of Guam, including autonomous and semi-autonomous agencies thereof, or in the Judicial Branch with the following exceptions:

(1)A person holding elective office;

(2)A special or Staff Assistant to the Governor;

(3)A person appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Legislature;

(4)A person retained from time to time to perform professional or special services for a specific fee; and

(5)A person working on a casual basis on the days he performs no services. Employees includes a person on administrative annual, or sick-leave unless such person has resigned and has received a lump-sum payment for such leave. Subject to

(5)above, it includes persons not providing professional services for a specific fee who are hired on a temporary, part-time, emergency or casual basis;

(b)Election means any local, primary, general or special election;

(c)Activity means the independent action of an employee, the action of an employee in open or secret cooperation with others and the indirect action of an employee through an agent. Activity does not mean the COL5/8/2020 CH. 5 INVESTIGATIONS BY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION independent action of the husband or wife of an employee, upon his or her own initiative and in his or her own behalf;

(d)Political Party means a national political party, a territorial political party and an affiliated organization;

(e)Partisan and non-partisan when used as adjectives refer to political parties; and

(f)Candidate means:

(1)[repealed]

(2)a candidate for an office in a political party.