Definitions

As used in this Chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning stated herein, unless such meaning is clearly inapplicable in the context:

(a)Government of Guam shall include all agencies, departments, instrumentalities, public corporations, and all other entities of the government, no matter how designated, and whether or not such agencies may sue or be sued in their own name.

(b)Chief Claims Officer means the Attorney General of Guam, and for the autonomous agencies the Attorney General shall designate as claims officers those persons so designated by the Board of such agency, or by its chief executive officer if there be no Board.

(c)Line Agency means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the Government of Guam which is funded by an annual appropriation from the Legislature. Such appropriations do not include subsidies.

(d)Autonomous agency means any department, agency, or instrumentality which generates, or is intended to generate, as evidenced in law, all of its own operating revenues apart from annual appropriations from the General Fund. Annual appropriations do not include amounts appropriated to line agencies to pay for services rendered by autonomous agencies. Subsidies appropriated from the General Fund to an autonomous agency, whether or not annually appropriated, shall not mean that an autonomous agency becomes a line agency for purposes of this Chapter.

(e)House Patient means a patient who presents themselves to Guam Memorial Hospital who does not have a private practitioner or who does not request and/or is unable to identify an accepting practitioner. For the purposes of the Government Claims Act and for Agent for Hospital Reimbursement, ‘House Patient’ designation is given to the care provided by agents of the hospital. COL6/24/2021 CH. 6 GOVERNMENT CLAIMS ACT